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The Drexel University P.R.I.D.E. (Promoting Research, Innovation, and Diversity Education) 4 LGBTQ+ Symposium illuminates and inspires research, ideas, people, groups, and collective action to support LGBTQ+ communities in their many forms. This one-day gathering brings together people from Drexel (including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, administrators, and staff) as well as members of the broader community. One of this year’s features will be a poster session in which presenters may share their work – completed, emergent, or beginning – and engage with others. 

We seek proposals that integrate the diverse experiences, perspectives, and contributions of research and creative content that centers on the LGBTQ+ community. For example, Bryant Keith Alexander describes one of his approaches to queer research as

...an incisive examination of the creative, performative, intimate, publicly disruptive, personal, and political everyday lives of queer identified folk (e.g., LGBTQ and beyond), with an express focus on their intersectional identities in relation to race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, embodiedness, and all markers of their particularity and the assumptions and commitments of recognizing struggle, amplifying voice, archiving memory, empowering transformation, and mobilizing social change. (Alexander in Denzin and Lincoln, 2018, p. 523)

In this spirit, we invite proposals for poster presentations that take up LGBTQ+ topics across spaces, places, ideas, and disciplines. We encourage submissions that consider the intersections of LGBTQ+ and other identities as well as implications for transformation, equity, and social justice. We welcome work within and across all disciplines.

• Stage of work: proposals can be for work at any stage (beginning ideas, works in progress, completed projects)
• Length of proposal: submissions should be no more than 250 words
• Content of proposal: a brief description of your work, including some context/ purpose of the project and its significance to the LGBTQ+ community

• April 22, 2024 Poster Proposal Submission Deadline
• May 6, 2024 Acceptance Notification
• June 6, 2024 Second Annual P.R.I.D.E. 4 LGBTQ+ Symposium 

If you are interested in volunteering as a reviewer of proposals, please contact viceprovostdei@drexel.edu. We greatly appreciate anyone willing to support the efforts of this program and the scholars submitting their work.