INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT

From its inception, the leaders of QRM have worked to build a supportive, inclusive, and diverse community of international scholars who are from a wide array of disciplines and at different stages of their careers. The conference organizers are strongly committed to ensuring that the conference is a safe and welcoming space for all attendees. To this end, all attendees are expected to treat each other with respect, regardless of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, disability, age, gender identity or expression, social class, nationality, citizenship status, age, appearance, body size, accent, academic rank, or institutional affiliation.

Moreover, QRM welcomes scholarship that seeks to pursue justice by interrogating, challenging, and dismantling oppressive ideologies such as racism, whiteness, patriarchy, cisheteronormativity, colonialism, Western-centrism, classism, ableism, and ageism.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Since the first conference in 2008, QRM has been held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which sits on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache peoples. While attending the conference in Albuquerque, we urge attendees to recognize that the sovereignty of these peoples was never ceded and to honor the traditional stewards of the land where we gather.