Announcements – $20,000 for Black Media Web Projects, Elevator Pitch 2010, Poc In Fandom, Asian American Entrepreneurs

Head over to the site and take the survey if you’re interested in a Black Start Up weekend.

Race and Fandom Call for Submissions

Transformative Works and Cultures is looking to discuss race and fandom.  Here’s the call:

Transformative Works and Cultures, an online-only, peer-reviewed journal focusing on media and fan studies, broadly conceived, invites contributions for a special issue on race and ethnicity to be published in summer 2011.

Academic scholarship on fan cultures and fan productions over the past few decades has focused primarily on gender as the sole category of analysis. There has been little published scholarship on fan cultures and productions that incorporates critical race theory or draws on the rich array of methodologies that have been developed during the past century in both activist and academic communities in order to incorporate analysis of the social constructions of race and ethnicities in fandoms.

In contrast, fan activism and fan scholarship (at cons, workshops, and on the Internet) has produced a growing body of work (personal narratives, essays, carnivals, and in recent months, a press) focusing on not only analyzing but also confronting hierarchies of race and ethnicity and their relationship to gender, sexuality, class, and disability. Submissions by academics, acafans, fan scholars, and fans are encouraged. In all categories, people of color are especially encouraged to submit.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

*Online activism and the circulation of critical race theory and women of color feminisms in fan communities, in particular the relationship between fan online discourse and other online activist communities.

*Critical analysis of the instantiation and critique of racial hierarchies in fan communities and the surrounding cultural productions.

*Racist and antiracist issues in commercial transformative works (comics, film, mashups, remixes, machinima, etc.), especially recuperative race readings (e.g., Randall’s The Wind Done Gone, Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea).

*Race concerns in source texts (characters of color and their fannish reception, fandoms for work by authors of color, writing fannish original characters, etc.) and fannish responses (such as the Carl Brandon Society, Verb Noire, and other panfannish and professional projects).

*Intersection of race and ethnicity with gender, sexuality, class, and ability in fannish contexts in fan works and fan communities (pre-Internet, Internet, conventions, vids, fan fiction, artwork, etc.)

More information and submission guidelines can be found here.

Vote on Young Entrepreneurs!

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship has partnered with E-Trade to present Elevator Pitch 2010.

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship provides a highly experiential and academic program that inspires young people from low-income communities to plan for successful futures by pursuing educational opportunities and starting their own businesses.

Now we’re giving our most biz-savvy students from around the country their first big break: 30 seconds to sell their idea to the world, in an online “elevator pitch.” Vote for your favorite idea, and that student could win the cash they need to get their idea off the ground or advance their education.

The nominee who earns the most online votes from the general public will win $2,500 to go toward advancing their education, or getting their idea off the ground. The winner will be announced at the OppenheimerFunds / NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge 2010 on October 5, 2010 and posted online on October 6, 2010.

Each of the businesses is the brainchild of a high school or middle school student from a low-income community who learned about starting his or her own business from the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s unique, experiential curriculum. Each nominee is either the owner or co-owner of his or her business. Local and regional panels selected the youth-led businesses to participate in the national competition.

To learn more, see the pitches, and vote, go here.

Radio Job

Making Contact /National Radio Project seeks a part-time (20 hours/week) radio producer with a passion for public-interest community media.

We see media as a powerful tool to help create a world where peace and social justice are paramount.

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