CfP for a Special Issue on:

‘Alternative Sexual Identities, Expressions and Lives- A Global Dialogue’

Deadline: 31st March 2019
Publication Date: 30th June, 2019
Special Issue Editor: Dr Maheswar Satpathy
Editor-in-Chief: Dr Sujit Kumar Kar
Managing Editor: Dr Saumya Ranjan Mishra

Dear Colleagues,

We are planning to bring the next issue of INDIAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH, SEXUALITY AND
CULTURE (IJHSC) [ISSN: 2581-575X] on the theme ‘Alternative Sexual Identities, Expressions and Lives-
A Global Dialogue’ in June, 2019. It will encompass larger transdisciplinary themes on LGBTQIA+ Studies.
IJHSC is India's First official Gender and Sexuality-focused Journal. It has an excellent track record of
publishing some of India’s finest research in the area of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sexual Health, Mental
Health, Cultural Discourses on Sexuality, SRH, Human Rights, and Politics, to name a few. The Journal aims to
attract and engage with a global audience, although is intended to serve as a catalyst in initiating, and sustaining
a culture and avenue for academic discourse in the area focused on India and South Asia. Our Board of Editors
and Reviewers is composed of top-notch academics from different corners of the world, including India,
Australia, Bangladesh, South Africa, UK, and USA from a range of disciplines.

In this regard, we request you to contribute a mini-review/empirical work/conceptual essays.

You can see the details of IISB following the links below.
http://iisb.org/
http://iisb.org/articles.php
http://iisb.org/books_journal.php
The article format should be as per the guidelines below:
http://iisb.org/academic.php

Introduction
In 2017, IJHSC came up with its first special thematic issue on ‘LGBTQI Community-Health, and Human
Rights’, in response to the undercurrents of Indian Society. It was highly successful in assembling diverse
perspectives on the emerging issues of the community, and had a wider readership, and received
appreciation for adding knowledge to the field. Since then, IJHSC has continued to act as a catalyst in
continued debates and discourses on Gender, and Sexualities in Indian and global context.
But, as we have placed ourselves in 2019, we witness a world where some countries held earlier as highly
progressive have chosen to stand regressed by rejecting the due rights of the LGBTQIA Community. At
the same time, we notice sea changes being made in different parts of the world e.g. some countries in
Africa which were otherwise dubbed as least developed in Economy, Education and other parameters of
development. However, the goals of championing rights and equality are far from being a reality, although
we have made major headways into policy-making e.g. Indian Transgender Bill, 2016 to recognize the
rights of Transgender in India. As we walk calmly and sometimes firmly through 2019, we are considering
and re-considering our possibilities, and ways of engaging with the world, wherein diversity would be the
core of life, and LGBTQI community will be a more visible one. It’s time that, we solemnly recognize, that
we have embarked on a journey, wherein the goals of true equality would not be realized, unless we move
together, leaving no one behind. The present issue aims at infusing voices of people, from all walks of life,
who will reflect on the present lives of the LGBTQI community in the developing world.
In this context, this special issue intends to provide a novel framework for understanding emerging issues
that the LGBTQI community are faced with, and how they navigate their lives and life goals in today’s
world. The issue will synthesize the research on emerging adults’ engagements with the society, and how
society multi-laterally influence, shape up, and hinder or help their identity development and formation,
contribute to aggressive and prosocial behaviours, understand their sexuality, and benefit or harm their
relationships with their parents, friends, and romantic partners. In places, where the published research on
a topic is missing, research from the face to face context can be used to provide a starting point for
understanding the same topics.

Objective
This special issue aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings
and ethnographic/phenomenological accounts in the areas of Identity, sexuality, and relationships among
LGBTQI community, and how they navigate their lives, in a difficult time with widespread hatred, and
rampant human rights violations in LMICs, and most importantly in Indian context.

Target Audience
The target audience of this issue are professionals and researchers working in the interdisciplinary and
transdisciplinary fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (Clinical,
Community, Health and Social Psychology), Medical Sciences (e.g. Psychiatry, Public Health, Global
Health, Sexual Health), Human Development, Development Studies, Policy Studies, Politics, Sociology,
Education, Media Studies, and Communications, as well as policymakers, and key civil society
stakeholders, etc.

Theme-1: Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and the LGBTQIA Community

GBVs often are perpetrated by the powerful on the ones who hold an unequal power relation in the gender
paradigm, which includes Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) irrespective of Gender Identities. All these acts
of violence often result in physical, psychological, sexual or economic harms all of which have been
identified as social determinants of health. This special issue, therefore, seeks contributions from activists,
feminists, academics, independent researchers, frontline organizations and others working with the victims
and survivors of GBV in the LGBTQI community, with a special focus on Transgenders.
This special issue will provide evidence and critical intersectional analysis about specific issues related to
Gender-Based Violence specifically pertaining to Transgenders. We are seeking empirical research articles,
case studies, viewpoint articles, review or literature review articles and conceptual articles covering (but
not limited to) the following topics:
• Intersectionality analysis and theory relating to intimate partner violence, and GBV
• The history and politics of GBV in health and social care
• The vital role of health and care services in GBV care and prevention
• Monitoring and evaluating GBV: the key health indicators
• Effect of intimate partner violence, domestic violence, and GBV on mental health and wellbeing
• GBV and Spatial Analysis; Social Network Analysis
• GBV and its impact and effects on minority women and children
• GBV and social determinants of health
• GBV, social capital and support among minority groups
• Health and social care policy and/or service response to GBV, especially amongst BME girls and women
• Intimate partner violence and HIV/AIDS
• GBV and sexual and reproductive health
• Role of decentralization in preventing GBV
• The health causes and effects of GBV in public spaces (including workplaces)
Theme-2: Health, Human Rights, Law and Advocacy
 Indian Transgender Bill, 2016: Critiques and Present Situation, Futuristic Predictions
 Law and Human Rights: Right to Live with Dignity.
 Status of Global Laws related to LGBTQI Community, and Identities

Themes-3: Observational/Phenomenological/Ethnographic Accounts

 Achievements, Challenges and Developments Post-Section-377 in India
 Human Rights Advocacy in the Developing World
 HICs and their dialogue with the Developing World
The key contents considered in this issue are intersectionality, social determinants of health and social care,
equity and human rights, law, and interventions that help to overcome barriers and that promote equality
and inclusion. Submissions may present new research, critical theory, or best practice and should highlight
practical lessons learned from experience in different settings or countries.

Theme-4: Trans-Feminism in 21st Century World

We want to explore the ways in which Trans issues are addressed within broader feminist and women’s
organizations and social movements around the world. We want this issue to expand the discussion beyond
the familiar and overly simplistic dichotomy often drawn between exclusionary transphobic feminism and
inclusive trans-affirming feminism. We seek to highlight the many feminisms that are trans inclusive and
that affirm the diversity of gender expression, in order to document the reality that feminist transphobia is
not universal nor is living a trans life, or a life that contests the gender binary, antithetical to feminist
politics. How are Trans, genderqueer, and non-binary issues related to feminist movements today? What
kind of work is currently being undertaken in the name of trans/feminism? What new paradigms and visions
are emerging? What issues still need to be addressed? Central to this project is the recognition that multiple
oppressions (not just Trans and sexist oppressions) intersect, converge, overlap, and sometimes diverge in
complex ways, and that trans/feminist politics cannot restrict itself to the domain of gender alone.

Theme-5: Workplace Diversity, Sexual Orientation and LGBTQI employees-Needs and Rights
Transgender employees, compared with other facets of workforce diversity, this special issue of IJHSC
aims at opening up new perspectives on this issue. Emphasis is placed on the equal consideration of gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues, to reopen discourses and debates in the line of famous rhetoric
‘Leave no one behind’ in the SDG 2030 Agenda. In management practice, many organizations use the term
LGBT to designate the target group of organizational practices (e.g. diversity management), although, in
reality, these usually only aim at Lesbian and Gay Employees. As transgenderism is not related to a certain
sexual orientation, subsuming this phenomenon into one umbrella term, together with different sexual
orientations, marginalizes the unique stressors transgender employees have to face. Unique experiences of
transgender employees, for example, can appear before, within, and after transitioning. In this context, this
special issue encourages researchers to submit contributions that broaden the understanding of both issues
related to employees’ sexual orientation (such as being bisexual, lesbian, gay, and also being heterosexual),
and/or issues that are specifically related to transgender employees.
Contributions should provide deeper insights into the differing experiences of the whole spectrum of LGBT
employees in the workplace in different occupational contexts globally. Furthermore, contributions are
welcome that offer contextualized insights for evaluating and conceptualizing organizational initiatives
aiming at a higher level of inclusion for LGBT employees. Theoretical or conceptual contributions on these
issues are appreciated as well.
Theme-6: Gender, Sexuality, Culture and Society- LGBTQI Community and Intersectionality in India,
Indian Diaspora and the World
In order to broaden the predominantly Anglo-American perspective on LGBTQI issues, contributions
reflecting the situations in Indian, South Asian, Asian, African, and Latin American countries are strongly
encouraged; However, contributions from all nations will be very warmly welcomed.
Submission Procedure: Academics, Clinicians, Researchers, Policymakers, Human Rights Advocates,
and Members of Civil Society are invited to submit Full Articles (Draft) by 31st March 2019. All interested
authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions prior to submission. A short abstract of up
to 100 words and up to 20 references in APA/Harvard style are required. Manuscripts should be between 2500-
3,000 words and formatted according to the IJHSC’s Authors’ guidelines. The said word limit does not
include Abstract, and References, and Acknowledgments, but does include Footnotes and Endnotes if any.
All submitted Articles, except the ‘Invited Commentaries’ will be subjected to a double-blind peer review,
by two eminent experts working in the area. They will be subsequently accepted only after the due
recommendation of the reviewers (if they score 7/10). In the event of an Article being returned with a
recommendation for Major Revision, they will be accepted only after the 3rd Review. In the case of Minor
Revision, changes being made, Questions being duly addressed and response sheet addressed to the Special
Issue Editor will be sufficient for acceptance of the Article. In any event, a period of a maximum of 15 days
will be allowed to make changes and return the article, failing which the Article will be treated as
withdrawn. No request for an extension in this regard shall be considered due to a tight timeline for
publication. After the articles have met all the requirements, they will be placed in the Journal following
the editorial process.
Plagiarism Note: Articles will be processed using TurnItIn. Only Articles below 10% Similarity Score
shall be accepted for Peer-Review.
Publication Fees: There are no Submission or Acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this Journal.
All correspondence should be directed to:
Maheswar Satpathy
University College London (UCL), London, UK
Email: maheswarsatpathy@gmail.com
IJHSC (IISB) Style Referencing (Majorly APA Style for Psychological Sciences and Harvard
Style for Interdisciplinary Articles):

Book with one author

Author. (Year of publication). Title(Edition). Place, Country of publication: Publisher.

Book with two or more authors

Author, Author, and Author. (Year of publication). Title(Edition). Place, Country of publication:
Publisher.

Book or report by a corporate author e.g. organisation, association, government department

Organisation. (Year of publication). Title. Place, Country of publication: Publisher.

Book chapter in an edited book

Author. (Year of publication). Title. In editor, editor, editor (Eds.), Title of book (Edition. pp. xxx-
yyy). Place, country of publication: Publisher.

Conference paper online

Author. (Year, Month of publication). Title. Paper presented at XXXX Conference, Place, Country
of the conference. URL [Last Accessed on xx/yy/zzzz]

Journal article (academic/scholarly) with DOI

Author, Author, and Author. (Year of publication). Title. Name of journal, 81(3),1-20. URL [Last
Accessed on xx/yy/zzzz]

Journal article with no DOI

Author, Author, and Author. (Year of publication). Title. Name of journal, 81(3),1-20.

Magazine/Newspaper article
Author. (Year, August 28). Title. Name of magazine/newspaper, 234(4), 71.

Thesis
Author. (Year of publication). Title (Doctoral thesis, University of XXX, Place, Country). URL
[Last Accessed on xx/yy/zzzz]

Webpage
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(n.d). Title. URL. [Last Accessed on xx/yy/zzzz]