CCCC Queer Caucus

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!!

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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!

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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.

#4C25 folks: Come to the Biz Mtg at 4:45 in Ballroom G (Convention Ctr) to vote for a rez calling on CCCC/NCTE to strengthen their commitment to protecting members' (everyone's) academic freedom. Can get more specific about the details if you need, but we need a quorum for the vote to matter!

Queer Caucus business meeting starting soon! Hope to see you there #4C25

#4C25 @margaretprice.bsky.social posted about someone putting a QR code on every slide instead of just the first slide for accessibility — so I did that for my 1:45 talk! Thank you for sharing this practice & encouraging everyone to equitable conference practices.

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I appreciate @emilybrier.bsky.social’s discussion of the transnormative master narrative that cis people often subscribe to: trapped in the wrong body until medical transition and then happily ever after. Something to keep in mind in my own research and honoring of trans stories. #4C25

Congratulations to the 2025 Lavender Rhetorics Award winners!! Jon M. Wargo and Kyle P. Smith (Article), Keisha McCiantoc (Dissertation), and Seth E. Davis (Nontraditional Scholarly Text) #4C25

“Queerness consists as a set of literacy events … that constitutes as being a lesbian … queer histories are often difficult to pin down … imagination then is a methodology.”

“Queerly Imagined: Woman Claiming Public Space” - Caroline Dadas
#cccc #4C25 #ncte #cccc2025 #ab7

“As queer scholars we must prevent the same kind of insular thinking for the future … what would it look like if we centered the most vulnerable of our communities?”

“Queerly Imagined: Woman Claiming Public Space” - Caroline Dadas
#cccc #4C25 #ncte #cccc2025 #ab7

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Back to #4C25 next week! Find me in AA.12 on Thursday at 10:30, "The Darwin (Typing) Mixtape," where I will be talking about DITA, AI, and what happens when mixing the two together. Then Saturday, I'm sitting on the queer caucus panel with my boo @rachaeljay13.bsky.social and a few amazin' others!

Important to remember which of our colleagues are NOT with us this year and the various reasons why :(

Details for our sponsored panel at Cs next week! April 12, 11-12:15, room 311, Baltimore Convention center, with presentations from Shuvro Das, Rachael Jordan and Emily Gresbrink, and Zoe Ann Wendler!

Your friendly neighborhood CCCC Queer Caucus social media chair won't be on site at the conference this year due to some family obligations, but I'm still online here to boost our caucus members' panels, research, comments, questions, and thoughts! Tag this account in your posts as you wish :)

Hey, I'm gonna be presenting at the Queer Caucus panel at this year's Conference on College Composition and Communication, so if you're in rhetoric too, maybe follow our official account for neato info.

And also come see my talk if you're going to C's.

(It's on Stained Glass Woman).

Excitedddd!

In addition to announcing caucus news, we'd also like to promote the research of our members, so please tag us in anything relevant that you're proud of and want shared!

Hello #TeamRhetoric, the CCCC Queer Caucus is now on Blue Sky!