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DESCRIPTION:“Going Viral” is an opportunity to think with the logics an
 d lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic about the ways that intimacy\, mobility
 \, information\, body\, nation\, gender\, and sexuality are imbricated thr
 ough viruses\, and other transmittable forms. \n\n Is the virus airborne? 
 The constantly shifting data on how the Coronavirus spreads has reconfigur
 ed breath and other normative bodily habitations\, from mask-wearing and h
 and sanitizing\, to elbow-taps and grocery wiping. \n\nThrough what fluids
  is the virus transmitted? Covid-19 has required reconsiderations of physi
 cal intimacy\, with cities even publishing sex guides. The governance of i
 ntimacy is all too familiar to people considered “at risk” of HIV infe
 ction: queer and trans people\, sex workers\, migrants\, and drug users.\n
 \nDoes the virus know gender? Computer viruses named Melissa and ILOVEYOU 
 signal how gender\, intimacy\, and affect become vectors for digital migra
 tions. But along with viruses travel techniques of care and survival that 
 are distinctly gendered\; consider the recurring report that nations with 
 women leaders handled pandemic response better.\n\nIs racism the virus? Ra
 cist attacks have targeted Asian people\, casting them as originators and 
 spreaders of Covid-19. HIV\, Ebola\, H1N1\, and Avian Flu have each been a
 ttached to particular racialized populations in ways that cast suspicion o
 n their sexual and intimate proximities with humans and other animals. Fur
 ther\, reports of higher infection rates amongst Black and Latinx populati
 ons pulled the veil back on unequal structures of labor\, housing\, and ac
 cess to medical care.\n\n The current pandemic is an accumulation of many 
 viral histories. This panel invites scholars to draw form their original r
 esearch to explore the traffic in viral discourse and the pathways of tran
 smission—of data\, bodies\, feelings\, ideology—through feminist\, que
 er\, and trans lenses.\n\nRoundtable Participants:\n\nAdia Benton\, Associ
 ate Professor of Anthropology\, Northwestern University\n\nGowri Vijayakum
 ar\, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuali
 ty Studies\, Brandeis University\n\nJih-Fei Cheng\, Assistant Professor of
  Feminist\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Scripps College\n\nShaka McGl
 otten\, Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology\, Purchase College
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SUMMARY:Feminisms Unbound: Going Viral
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