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.

1997 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:

♦ Keynote

Cindy Patton, "Stealth Bombers of Desire: The Globalization of "Alterity" in Emerging Democracies"

♦ 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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1998 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:

♦ Keynote

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Affect and Queer Performativity"

♦ 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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1999 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:

♦ Keynote

Judith Halberstam (University of California, Davis), "Male Fraud: Counterfeit Masculinities and the Case of Brandon Teena"

♦ 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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2000 The Fourth International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics

was held on November 26th, 2000.

  • Naifei Ding (National Central University), "Stone Butch Blues, Red Stone Femmes"
  • Amie Parry (National Jiau-Tong University), "Narcissism and a Catechism: Flashing Objects in Taiwan's Contemporary Music Cultures"
  • Jen-Peng Liu (National Tsing-Hus University), "Deprivation and Turbulence: An Essay on Mourning in Hachioji Testament"
  • Atonia Chao (Tung-Hai University), "Banjia/Moving House: A Materialistic Analysis of Taiwan's Lesbian-Transgender Identity Formations from the 1950s to the Present"
  • Yin-Bin Ning (National Central University), "An Inquiry intoTransgender Aesthetics: The New Sexy Men and Teenagers"
  • Jia-Wen Jiang, Hsiau-Jing, Huei-Tse: "From Gender Education to Transgender Education to Transgender Human Rights"
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2003 Fifth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

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

♦ Keynote

Leslie Feinberg (Author, Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors "Sex and Gender Oppression: Finding the Path to Liberation")

♦ 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"

♦ 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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2004 Sixth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

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

♦ 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"

♦ Panel Discussion

"Gender-Transgressive Bodies"

  • Jamison Green (USA)
  • Anne Bolin (USA)
  • Rieng (Taiwan)
  • Sander (Taiwan)
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2007 Seventh International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

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

♦ Keynote

Laura Kipnis, "How to Look at Pornography"

♦ 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"

♦ Panel Discussion

"Porn and Selfhood"

  • Cheng-Hong Wang (Taiwan)
  • Linda Huang (Taiwan)
  • Laura Kipnis (USA)
  • Katrien Jacobs (HK)
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2013 Eighth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

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

♦ Keynote

Amber Hollibaugh, “DESIRING CHANGE: Constructing A Radical Vision for Sexual Politics

♦ 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”

♦ Panel Discussion

  • Xu-Kuan Gao (Taiwan TG Butterfly Garden)
  • Hau-Zhong Wang (CoolCloud)
  • Leo/Jacqueline (Ling-Nan University, Hong Kong)
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