The Eighth Biennial Bodies of Knowledge Symposium will be held this week at USC Upstate April 9 – 11. The theme for this year’s symposium is Creating a Better World for LGBTQ people. You gotta love it.
Tomorrow morning (Tuesday, the 10th.) a panel discussing our book Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will begin the day’s sessions at 10:50 in the Campus Life Center Ballroom, room 310.
I’m not hopeful that any of my cyberspace friends and followers will actually be in Spartanburg, South Carolina for the event; but I added Room 310 because that was my dorm room number for my 3 years at the University of Texas Blanton Dormitory. I thought that was somehow a bit of small world karma.
Pretty is driving two Miss Daisies, Harriet Hancock and me, to the event. I had hoped for more contributors to be able to make it, but then I began to think what could be more appropriate than to moderate a panel of the woman who was really the inspiration for the book (Harriet) and the woman who wouldn’t let me give up on the project in the dark days (Pretty).
So off we go – intrepid travelers reminiscent of circuit preachers with just a different gospel of truth. Hallelujah. Can I get an amen on that?
http://www.uscupstate.edu/bodiesofknowledge
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About Sheila Morris
Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother.
In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality.
She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, was released in January, 2019.
She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Naynay to her two granddaughters Ella and Molly James who light up her life for real. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
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I would attend if I were closer, from your Texas delegation, God speed…..
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Thanks so much, rockyden Cuz! I wish you could be with us, too!
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More excitement for you! I only wish I could be there!
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Oh, that would be such fun!! I would have given you a special introduction!! 🙂
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Woot!!!
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Hey, where’s your follow up post, Sheila?! 🤔 😉
Road trip! Fun, Driving two Miss Daisies is a great and humorous picture I created in my head.
Yay for Pretty! ✨ 💞
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Pretty is 14 years younger than I am, and while the difference was minimal when we got together 18 years ago, it looms larger as we both age! She’s a real trooper, though!!
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Oh, you know it is how the heart and soul blend together that counts, Sheila. I would give almost anything to find a special someone who would give without taking so much out of my essence. Cheers to your 18 years of love! 💕
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Yes, it is the heart and soul that often can blend to make a relationship special, but you’re right…you need to keep your individual self intact as well…
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Thanks so much for your validation on this thought processing on love and long-term relationships. My parents and grandparents had this but I haven’t made the right choices: yet!
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No need to give up. Sometimes when you least expect it…:)
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Thanks for this positive message, Sheila. 😘 😍
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And because Pretty was on the panel with me in the Upstate and I forgot to ask someone to take a few pictures, I will have to do a follow up post without any images…sadly, I might add because we had a great experience there, too!
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I bet you did have a great time in the Upstate!
My first two or more years of blogging I simply wrote essays with No photos! *gasp!*
I have been struggling with my WP and cell phone not staying “in synch.” I may have figured a way around this. We shall see! 🤗
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Yes, I remember the days of no pictures with your essays, but I have to say I love your pictures!! Particularly the doors…awesome.
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Thank you so much, Sheila! It was a trial and error period, which my youngest daughter promoted the idea of pictures. I was being “old school” back then. Hahaha! 🤣
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Good for your daughter…and I am being “old school” now…and headed for bed!
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😴 💤
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