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MoM Annual Academic & Arts Conference 2025

FUN, SEX & CRYING OUT LOUD – 25th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE



March 14-16, 2025



St. Petersburg, Florida & Online



CFP – Deadline, Dec. 15




The Museum of Motherhood is calling all scholars, artists, and community


members for presentations and papers on the subject of ‘Fun, Sex, & Cryingt


Out Loud’. This year’s theme invites articles and art that support both the


interrogation and levity necessary to navigate turbulent times. As well, it


supports the subject matter elucidated in the Museum’s 2024-25 new ‘Escape


Womb Experience’ and the theme of conception, gestation, and birth.


Conference attendees will have the opportunity to experience this


one-of-a-kind exhibit.



This international call for papers invites artists, scholars, poets,


sociologists, maternal psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists,


women’s, sexuality, and gender studies professors, masculinity studies


experts, birth-workers, doctors, researchers, students, and lay-people to


share their work and tie it to this year’s theme. Works that are inclusive


of all identities of birthing folx are encouraged.



We encourage presenters to unpack the sociocultural domain of conception,


gestation, and birth and the nuanced and real experiences of all aspects of


the psychological, personal, professional, and media environment within


which these experiences are situated.



The conference will serve as a site of resistance and empowerment as we


deconstruct, reframe, and affirm the complex landscape of conception


(intended and unintended), gestation (in body and in other’s bodies), and


birth within the ongoing labor of diverse family systems everywhere. We


recognize the scale, variance, and duration of these passionate personal


and institutionalized experiences and hope that this conference will


contribute to the body of knowledge on this subject.



Topics of interest include but are not limited to:



   - Reproductive language, ethics, and care


   - Queer love, M/other love


   - Normative constructions of gender in m/otherwork, pregnancy, and


   birthing


   - Biomedical and cultural discourses of conception, gestation, and birth


   - Marginalized identities, fertility treatment, gender identity, and


   intersex identities


   - Un/wanted pregnancy in the context of pronatalism and


   policy/criminalization


   - Pregnancy and birthing with (dis-)abilities, illness, and children


   with special needs


   - Divorce, breaking up, un-coupling, and families with complex


   identities and circumstances


   - Bucking the trends and breaking new ground


   - Art as healing, activism, and expression, and the importance of play


   - Embodied resistance to socially constructed conventions about


   motherwork, pregnancy, and birth, including as they are contextualized


   within marginalized positions


   - Language and identity


   - Pain, spiritual awakening, birthing ourselves



CONFERENCE: The Annual Academic MoM Conference is in person and online in


2025. We welcome individuals and roundtables conducting research, making


art, working in therapeutic, medical, university, and birth settings, as


well as auto-ethnographic perspectives by m/others, family members, &


students. Submissions must include a title, bio, & abstract. Conference


applications are due December 15, 2024. These include all submission types


(e.g. performance, media, music).



TO SUBMIT: go to https://jourms.org/submit/. Questions can be emailed


directly to JourMS@gmail.com. Or call 877-711-MOMS (6667) leave a message.


All submissions may also be considered for publication in the Journal of


Mother Studies (JourMS.org) at presenter’s discretion.  MOMmuseum.org St.


Pete, FL USA.



JOURNAL OF MOTHER STUDIES (JourMS): All submissions for the conference


should also consider submitting to the Journal of Mother Studies, an


academic, peer-reviewed, hybrid digital humanities journal devoted to


Mother Studies published annually. Final submissions for the Journal are


due by May 30th (midnight). JourMS <http://www.jourms.org/>

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