CFP: [International] Points of Exit: Queering Queer Texts  full
name / name of organization:  Centre for Gender and Diversity
contact email:  Points of Exit: Queering Queer Texts
conventional Representations of Age, Parenting, and Sexuality.
The conference aims to examine the potential deconstruction of
conventional scripts of age, parenting, and sexuality.  For one
of the panels, entitled Queering Queer Texts, we invite papers
that deal with the following theme:  In his poem â€œTwo Lovesâ€
of 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas famously referred to same-sex love
as â€œthe love that dare not speak its name.â€ Although this
motto of silence might properly reflect the outward appearance
of many queer lives and texts, both queer audiences and queer
scholars have found that underneath the straight veneer there
always lies queerness. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick queered canonized
fiction in Epistemology of the Closet (1990), Alexander Doty did
the same for the movies in Flaming Classics (2000), and Richard
Dyer covered popular