Eep. I'm going to send out my first article for consideration by a peer-reviewed journal this week. I should have been doing this for at least a year now, but there you go. I'm revising a conference paper that I was pretty proud of, so I feel pretty good that someone will take it. Now I just have to stop fiddling with it once I get the new information and data integrated and get it proofed, and just get the damn thing in the mail. I hate that I can't email it in, but I guess is this part of the process, eh?

It's all part of the bigger process of trying to get my career back on track.

( In which our heroine navel gazes )

I'm working on a project proposal for the various and sundry postdocs I'm applying for this fall, and I need some resources. Of course, my first thought was to bug you guys.

All the postdocs are about women and religion. (Sorry, guys and those who identify somewhere inbetween -- know that I'm bringing you into my next project!) I'm looking at the construction of sexual identity within Paganism, something I've done prelim work on and gotten help from many of you on before. I want to expand this into a larger project.

So, I need your favorite resources (books, mag/journal articles, websites, etc.) on bisexuality, lesbianism, coming out stories, and the like. These do not have to relate direclty to Paganism -- in fact, resources that talk about women and sexuality in the context of other religions are especially needed for the point I'm trying to make. Do not be afraid you'll suggest something I already own or have read -- duplicate suggestions are better than omissions, and I want the largest possible body of work to draw from.

You can either comment here or email me at dakotawitch @ gmail dot com

Major points for discussion boards, blogs, or the like that I can not only use as resources, but can tap for interviewees/survey respondents. If you'd be willing to serve as an interviewee/survey respondent, let me know. (You do not have to identify as bi or lesbian to participate.)

Thanks in advance!

The Girl is doing an anthropological study of coffee and American culture. If you want to help out, please go take her survey here 

This is for a scholarship competition, and will lay the groundwork for a book in the future.

Go get a cup of coffee and take the survey...you know you wanna :)