<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(Please forgive cross-postings)</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Lori Beth De Hertogh, Erin Frost, and I are excited to announce a CFP entitled “<span id="gmail-m_8259214820993540360gmail-m_6222474560239185645gmail-m_-7678329613279629419gmail-docs-internal-guid-20e2408e-7fff-0eba-c8ad-a449a8b928ac"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span id="gmail-m_8259214820993540360gmail-m_6222474560239185645gmail-m_-7678329613279629419gmail-docs-internal-guid-e7f3158c-7fff-8a49-3919-8c950226c687"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Rhetorics of Reproductive Justice in Public and Civic Contexts</span></span></span></span>” for a Special Issue of <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Reflections</i></span>. </font><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If you have questions or would like to pitch an idea prior to formally submitting a proposal, feel free to contact us. </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Proposals are due <b>September 1, 2019</b>. The full CFP is below. A PDF copy is attached, and a digital copy can also be found <a href="https://reflectionsjournal.net/" target="_blank">at this link</a>. Please share widely and let us know if you have any questions!</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best,</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Maria, Lori Beth, and Erin</font></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">*******************************************************</font></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5a1af4c6-7fff-dd5b-33d9-fdb4e1231163"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Papers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reflections </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special Issue: Rhetorics of Reproductive Justice in Public and Civic Contexts</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Guest Editors Maria Novotny, Lori Beth De Hertogh, and Erin Frost</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recent reports reveal that the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, particularly among low-income, rural, and African American women (NPR, 2017). Changes to the Supreme Court endanger the viability of Roe v. Wade. In Iowa, a judge threatens to ban nearly all abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected (NPR, 2018). In Wisconsin, the state legislature rejects the repeal of the “cocaine mom law,” which opponents argue forces undue medical care on pregnant women (Reuters, 2017). These reproductive threats are not limited to only women’s rights. For example, in Oklahoma, Governor Mary Fallin signed a law allowing adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ couples, single individuals, and non-Christians (New York Times, 2018). Such action would threaten individuals who cannot biologically reproduce but seek access to alternative-family building options to have a child. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">These examples demonstrate the numerous ways reproductive rights in the United States are under assault from social, economic, and political mechanisms that seek to dismantle individuals’ abilities to make informed reproductive choices—or any reproductive choices at all. But just as importantly, these examples illustrate the urgency for and the possibility of community-based rhetorics that speak to, define, and make visible methods of counteraction. We seek examinations and examples of public rhetoric and civic writing that engage reproductive justice. More specifically, this special issue focuses on community activities and activism as sites of resistance to the trends we describe above. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In briefly tracing the field of rhetoric’s scholarly landscape, we already see this kind of rhetorical work occurring. However, it has largely occurred in theoretical spaces; for example, scholars such as Mary Lay, Laura Gurak and Clare Gravon (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), Marika Seigel (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rhetorics of Pregnancy</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), and Robin Jensen (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), to name a few, have established an exigence for rhetorical scholarship that addresses intersections between reproductive bodies, discourse, and technology. We seek to highlight community-based activities that parallel this scholarly work, rooting a material-rhetorical response to reproductive (in)justice in community writing, community engagement, and public rhetoric. We seek both a shift and alliance between traditional scholarly modes of resistance and public, unruly rhetorics (Alexander, Jarrett, & Welch). Recently emerging national issues (like those cited above) call for a new body of scholarship that is responsive to these quickly-evolving, kairotic moments where reproductive rights, perhaps more so now than in decades past, are under such direct public attack. In light of such circumstances, the goal of this special issue is to begin to move rhetorical research on reproductive issues toward community-based scholarship by emphasizing the ways and means through which organizations, groups, and communities engage reproductive rights in civic and public contexts. </span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With this in mind, we seek submissions that will serve rhetorical and public scholars of reproductive justice in helping shape and define this growing research area; we welcome works that consider potential usage by non-academic stakeholders, as well. We especially encourage proposals that engage rhetorics of reproductive justice through the context of community writing and public and civic rhetorics and that, in some fashion or another, consider the following questions: </span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How can we use rhetoric and public writing to achieve reproductive justice in civic and public contexts?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What can we learn from organizations/programs/activists engaged in reproductive justice? How do these communities use public writing for reproductive justice?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How might we move discussions of reproductive justice beyond feminist rhetorical lenses? What other lenses</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">queer, trans, decolonial, networked, legal</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">might be leveraged for and advantaged by the presence of such discussions? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What does reproductive justice look like for indigenous women, women of color, and the LGBTQ+ community? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What does reproductive justice look like in digital spaces? What are the limits and benefits of tackling reproductive threats in these spaces?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How might we take up discussions of reproductive justice produced by non-academic writers and rhetors? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What interdisciplinary and participatory approaches might help us identify and respond to contemporary reproductive threats? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What examples exist in our field that move rhetorical theory towards applicable toolkits and methods guiding public action and advocacy on issues related to reproductive justice? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What sub-fields, or related areas of inquiry, might rhetoricians draw upon to engage in actions that support reproductive justice? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What is our role or responsibility as rhetoricians serving the public when it comes to addressing issues of reproductive justice? </span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We welcome shorter pieces, as well as innovative and creative approaches to the topic of reproductive justice, that are rooted in public and civic contexts, methods, and approaches and that directly engage in the community sites and spaces where such activism occurs. Individuals, co-authors, or research collectives should submit a proposal of no more than 500 words as a .pdf file by September 1, 2019 to the three guest editors (Maria Novotny - <a href="mailto:novotnym@uwosh.edu">novotnym@uwosh.edu</a>, Lori Beth DeHertogh - <a href="mailto:dehertlb@jmu.edu">dehertlb@jmu.edu</a>, and Erin Frost - <a href="mailto:froste@ecu.edu">froste@ecu.edu</a>). If you have questions, or would like to pitch an idea prior to formally submitting a proposal, feel free to contact the guest editors. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please note that we are announcing this CFP early to provide researchers additional time gather community-engaged research connected to reproductive justice.  </span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Timeline for Submissions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposals due: September 1, 2019 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Authors notified: September 15, 2019</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full articles due: December 15, 2019</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Revision requests to authors: March 15, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Revisions due: June 15, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anticipated publication date: Fall 2020</span></p></span></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Maria Novotny, PhD</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Assistant Professor</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Professional & Digital Writing</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">University of Wisconsin Oshkosh<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Department of English</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">800 Algoma Blvd</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Oshkosh, WI 54901</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">222 Radford Hall (office)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="mailto:novotnym@uwosh.edu" target="_blank">novotnym@uwosh.edu</a> </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">(920) 424-7475</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Pronouns: she, her, hers</font><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">website: <a href="http://www.marianovotny.com" target="_blank">www.marianovotny.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>