...the distinction between safety and unsafety is profoundly unstable, and articulates some of the most disturbing paradoxes of contemporary life...gender, sexuality and women’s studies, however, has constantly resisted surrendering its tendencies towards the dangerous, its pressurizing of the dominant form of safety. we resist the criminalization of the unsafe, whether it be sexual, emotional or institutional, and prefer to dwell in the social relations that might come after safety.

it took me 10 minutes to write my abstract after reading this cfp.