The Conference aims to bring together international visiting scholars and activists as well as local scholars and activists to discuss developing issues related to sexual politics. The term "super-slim" in the title refers to a special mode of feminine napkin that emphasizes its compact size and its super absorbency, two qualities that pertain to our conference; the adoption of the term as the title of the conference also manifests our intention to articulate the most taboo aspects of female sexuality.

The First International Super-Slim Conference On Sexual Politics

had Cindy Patton (Emory University) as its keynote speaker and was held in 1997 on three afternoons dating Dec. 13--"Queer Theory and Asian Politics"; Dec. 20--"Gender Politics of Feminist Utopias"; & Dec. 21--"Cyberspace and Social Movement." Papers presented at the first conference include:

  1. Keynote
    Cindy Patton, "Stealth Bombers of Desire: The Globalization of "Alterity" in Emerging Democracies"
  2. Papers
    • Fran Martin, "Locating Queer: Denaturalization and the Confucian Law"
    • Amy Perry, "From Girl Nation to Queer Nation: Homo-erotic Desires in Feminist Utopias"
    • Nai-Fei Ding, "A Land Where Cats Don't Sing: The Politics of Herland"
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The Second International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics

had Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (City University of New York) as its keynote speaker and was held on October 3rd, 1998. Papers presented include:

  1. Keynote
    Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Affect and Queer Performativity"
  2. Papers
    • Naifei Ding and Jen-Peng Liu, "Reticent Poetics Queer Politics"
    • XiaoHong Zhang, "Queer Family Romance"
    • YinBin Ning, "Notes for a History of Ideas on the Emancipation of Sexuality"
    • Antonia Chao, "Flowers of Pain: Pervert Politico-Sexual Fantasies in the Nationalist/Communist Fray"
    • Josephine Ho, "From Left to Queer: The Queering of American Homosexual Movement"
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The Third International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics

was held on November 27th, 1999 and featured scholars in the area of transgender studies. Papers include:

  1. Keynote
    Judith Halberstam (University of California, Davis), "Male Fraud: Counterfeit Masculinities and the Case of Brandon Teena"
  2. Papers
    • Gayatri Gopinath (University of San Diego), "Queer Diasporas: The Transnational Trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire"
    • Jose Neil Cabanero Garcia (University of Phillipines), "Performativity, the Bakla, and the Orientalizing Gaze"
    • Antonia Chao (Tung-Hai University), "US Space Shuttles Going to the Moon: Global Metaphors and Local Strategies in Building up Taiwan's Lesbian Identities"
    • Amie Parry (National Jiau-Tung University), "A Search for the Lost Dialectics of the Invisible Po: Chen Xue anti-realism and anti-reticence"
    • Naifei Ding and Jen-Peng Liu (National Central University & National Tsing-Hwa University), " Reticent Poetics Queer Politics II: Alligator Skin, Lesbian Stuffing, Half-Man Half-Horse Qiu Miaojin"
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The Fourth International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics

was held on November 26th, 2000.

  1. Naifei Ding (National Central University), "Stone Butch Blues, Red Stone Femmes"
  2. Amie Parry (National Jiau-Tong University), "Narcissism and a Catechism: Flashing Objects in Taiwan's Contemporary Music Cultures"
  3. Jen-Peng Liu (National Tsing-Hus University), "Deprivation and Turbulence: An Essay on Mourning in Hachioji Testament"
  4. Atonia Chao (Tung-Hai University), "Banjia/Moving House: A Materialistic Analysis of Taiwan's Lesbian-Transgender Identity Formations from the 1950s to the Present"
  5. Yin-Bin Ning (National Central University), "An Inquiry intoTransgender Aesthetics: The New Sexy Men and Teenagers"
  6. Jia-Wen Jiang, Hsiau-Jing, Huei-Tse: "From Gender Education to Transgender Education to Transgender Human Rights"
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Fifth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

"The Age of Transgender" was held on Dec, 14, 2003

  1. Keynote
    Leslie Feinberg (Author, Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors "Sex and Gender Oppression: Finding the Path to Liberation")
  2. Papers
    • Josephine Ho, "Trans-Sexuality: Bisexual Formations and the Limits of Categories"
    • Dennis Lin, "The ‘Faggot' Menace in Cyberspace"
    • Yu-Hsin Chen, "From Upgrading to Body-Constructing: The Transgender Metaphor in The Bicentennial Man"
    • Jen-Peng Liu, Amie Parry, Naifei Ding, "Realism's Fantasy Structures and Fantasy's Realist Effects: Rereading T/P Narratives"
  3. Cross-Region Panel Discussion
    "Transgender Movement and Transgender Subjects"
    • Leslie Feinberg (USA)
    • Minnie Bruce Pratt (USA)
    • Junko Mitsuhashi (Japan)
    • Hsu-Kuan (Taiwan)
    • A-Chiong (Taiwan)
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Sixth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

"Body/Gender" was held on November 27, 2004

  1. Papers
    • Anne Bolin, "Testy and Docile Bodies: Her-stories of Compliance and Defiance in Women’s Bodybuilding"
    • Nai-Fei Ding, "Concubinage and Feminist Imaginaries"
    • Jen-Peng Liu, "In the Shadow of the "School": Politics of Anime Representation of Machine Bodies and Violent Pleasures"
    • Amie Parry, "Alternative Embodiments in Tolkien’s Trans-species Fantasy: Unequal Love and the Contradictions of Fellowship"
    • Jamison Green, "Bodies Moving Beyond Gender Boundaries"
    • Ya-Fei Hsu, "Shifting Bodies and Gender/Sexuality Markings: Constructing Ownership of the Body"
  2. Panel Discussion
    "Gender-Transgressive Bodies"
    • Jamison Green (USA)
    • Anne Bolin (USA)
    • Rieng (Taiwan)
    • Sander (Taiwan)
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Seventh International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

"Taking Pornography Seriously" was held on March 17, 2007.

  1. Keynote
    Laura Kipnis, "How to Look at Pornography"
  2. Papers
    • Yin-Bin Ning, "Taking Pornography Seriously"
    • Dennis Lin, "The Proscription of Online Male Queer Obscenity in Taiwan"
    • Ashley Hsu-liang Wu, "Outlet or Dead-end?: The Development and Curtailment of Taiwan Gays, Transgender, and Other Sexual Minorities under Internet Surveillance"
    • Katrien Jacobs, "Post or Perish: The New Media Schooling of the Amateur Pornographer"
  3. Panel Discussion
    "Porn and Selfhood"
    • Cheng-Hong Wang (Taiwan)
    • Linda Huang (Taiwan)
    • Laura Kipnis (USA)
    • Katrien Jacobs (HK)
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Eighth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

"Beware of Civil Society" held on Oct. 6, 2013.

  1. Keynote
    Amber Hollibaugh, “DESIRING CHANGE: Constructing A Radical Vision for Sexual Politics
  2. Papers
    • Yin-Bin Ning, "The Future of Masculinity"
    • Yia-Fei Hsu, “Hakka Woman Waiting for Her Lover and Incarceration/Correction: Life Politics under Moralist Legislation”
    • Naifei Ding, “Sex Work, Domestic Labor, and the Caste System”
    • Dennis Lin, “Raising My Boobs to Sell Sex: Chinese Transgender Sex Workers’ Sex/Gender/Body Performativity and Queer Politics
    • Josephine Ho, “Beware of Civil Society”
  3. Panel Discussion
    • Xu-Kuan Gao (Taiwan TG Butterfly Garden)
    • Hau-Zhong Wang (CoolCloud)
    • Leo/Jacqueline (Ling-Nan University, Hong Kong)
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