CCCC Queer Caucus

Second presentation on our panel: “Abolish Gender Dysphoria: Possibilities for Trans Futurity” by Leah Coppola #4C26

First presentation on our sponsored panel, “Toward a Queer of Color Futurity: Reimagining Safer Pedagogical Spaces in Technical Communication” by Shuvro Das #4C26

Our sponsored panel is THIS MORNING at 8:00! "Swipe, Speak, Survive: Queer/Trans Rhetorics of Navigation, Resistance, and Worldmaking" in Room 26 C #4C26!

And congratulations to the Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award Winners!!

Jainab Tabassum Banu, North Dakota State University
Sumaiya Sarker Sharmin, Washington State University
Amar Sherma, University of Texas at Arlington

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And finally, congratulations to Morgan C. Banville and Gavin P. Johnson, winners of the Lavender Rhetorics Award for their Peitho Cluster Conversation “Talking Back Through Rhetorical Surveillance Studies: Intersectional Feminist and Queer
Approaches” #4C26

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers A queer feminist history of rhetoric that looks at the erotic as a complicated site of rhetorical power, asking us to read the archives critically and differently.

Congratulations to Pamela Vanhaitsma, winner of the Lavender Rhetorics Award for her book, “The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers” ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

Congratulations to Erin M. Green, winner of the Lavender Rhetorics Award for her dissertation, “Writing Abolition: Dismantling Carceral Literacies of the Prison-Industrial Complex through Black Queer Activism”

Congratulations to Ada Hubrig, V. Jo Hsu, Christina Cedillo, and Jennifer Wingard, winners of the Lavender Rhetorics Award for their article, “Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Using CRT to Name the Intersections of Texas’s Legislative Harm.” College English, vol. 87, no. 1, Nov. 2024, pp. 168–87.

Come see me talk about trans comics! The weird ones!! #4C26

4. Queer Caucus Business Meeting at 6:30, Room 25A
5. Anzaldua Award Reception at 7:00, Room 26B
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Queer sessions tomorrow! #4C26
1. Risky Click: The Rhetorical Closeting of Queer Desire at 1:45, Room 307 B
2. Queer Archival Approaches to Comp/Rhetoric Scholarship at 1:45, Room 205 A
3. What Do We Value (and Love)? Redesigning the Introduction to the English and Writing Major" at 2:30, Room 17

@impossiblephd.bsky.social @rachaeljay13.bsky.social and I on Thursday at 1:45 EST, “Risky Click: The Rhetorical Closeting of Queer Desire,” Room 307B!

We’re excited to see everyone at #4C26! Tag us in your queer session posts so we can boost you ☺️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

CFSHRC's Feminist Bingo: Complete a full row, column, or diagonal to win! Prizes include your choice of a book from Parlor Press's Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms (3 available), vinyl rhetoric stickers designed by Ryan Skinnell (5 packs of 5 stickers available), and a takeout box (sourdough starter, seasoning, and mini food zines) from the panelists of "Coming to the Table" (1 available). DM us to claim your prize! @CFSHRC on Facebook or Bluesky.

Welcome to #4C26 and our first-ever CFSHRC Bingo!
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When you have a bingo, DM us here or on Facebook to claim your prize!
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It's been a minute since I've been here, but I'll be at 4C's this week presenting on content moderation and queer flourishing. So excited to catch up with everyone and most excited for the @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social meeting <3

If you're a member of CCCC Queer Caucus and would like to have your own recent publications featured, DM us!

Today's caucus member publication is "Studying Surveillance Through Hybrid Concealment Practices: A Queer Analysis of Digital Sex Work Safety Guides" by Rachael Jordan, as part of a Peitho cluster conversation edited by Morgan C. Banville and Gavin P. Johnson

wacclearinghouse.org/docs/peitho/...

Peter Lang Verlag - Basic Writing in the 21st Century Basic Writing in the 21st Century offers a cutting-edge survey of basic writing practices, issues, and scholarship as well as a much-needed resource ...

Today's featured caucus-member publication is "Queer Remediations: How Not to Be Basic" by Mark McBeth, in Basic Writing in the 21st Century (edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale and Barbara Gleason), which is hot off the presses! www.peterlang.com/document/130...

Today's featured publication by caucus members is "Echo and Drag as Resistance: Coloniality, Queerness, and Practices of Reading Student Texts" by @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social and Florianne Jimenez 😊 doi.org/10.7290/jaep...

Queer Potential in Professional Communication: “Queer Use” & Terms of Service Group negotiation of terms of service, community guidelines, and state and federal laws can be a site for investigating how power is reinforced through overlapping networks of compliance. As Techni...

Hello, queer compositionists! In this month before we convene in Cleveland (yay!), we're featuring recent publications by caucus members.

First up, "Queer Potential in Professional Communication: “Queer Use” & Terms of Service" by Rachael Jordan & Avery Edenfield www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

3 book covers from left to right: "Queerly Centered: LGBTQA Writing Center Directors Navigate the Workplace" by Travis Webster; "Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects" edited by William Banks, Matthew Cox, and Carolina Dadas; "Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment" by Stephanie West-Puckett, Nicole Caswell, and William Banks.

Oh hey it's Pride Month! So let me shamelessly boast about THREE recent winners of the @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Studies. The work is never done, and these scholars seriously deserve our applause. @upcolorado.bsky.social

And congratulations to Molly Ryan!

Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship - Conference on College Composition and Communication Nomination Deadline: August 1 Purpose: The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Lavender Rhetorics Award is presented annually to four works (one book, one article or book chapte...

Check out all the folks who received #4C25 Lavender Rhetorics Awards: cccc.ncte.org/cccc/awards/...

Congratulations to our very own Timothy Oleksiak!!

TJ wearing a purple button down shirt, round glasses with a slide in the background.

Getting ready to present at #4C25 about being a queer Neurodivergent WPA on the graduate pathway. Starts at 9:30! Hope to see you there!

Five presenters of various races, ethnicities, genders, and outfits in red, black, gray, and cream sit behind a conference table responding to questions. Margaret is making a dramatic gesture toward her shoulders with both hands and the other folks on the roundtable are chuckling.

Five presenters of various races, ethnicities, genders, and outfits in red, black, gray, and cream sit behind a conference table smiling toward the camera.

Yesterday's #4c25 session with @adahubrig.bsky.social, Jo Hsu, @jadeshiva.bsky.social, and Julie Kidder: queer / crip / race / life stories, survival techniques, resistance, awkward confessions, and glitter. I am grateful. Here's a link to our notes, scripts, and slides! bit.ly/cripcompany

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2025 caucus business meeting! Always a privilege to be able to be together.