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Date: 3/19/2026
Subject: HSR SI - Call for Abstracts: Indigenous queer health and wellbeing: Anticolonial meanings and praxis
From: Health Sociology Review


Health Sociology Review
Special Issue, July 2027

 

Call for abstracts or proposals

 

Indigenous queer health and wellbeing: Anticolonial meanings and praxis

 
Dear ~~first_name~~,

This special issue will take an anti-colonial approach to the fields of Indigenous Sociology, Queer Theory, Sociology, Health and/or Wellbeing. However, the special issue will not be limited papers to Sociology alone, aiming for a multidisciplinary approach and a critical engagement with the special issue’s overarching theme in different settler colonial contexts, nationally, regionally and internationally.

In keeping with anticolonial praxis, we anticipate papers will centre collective memories, experiences and intergenerational acts of resistance, survivance and thrivance responding to settler colonial attempts at erasure of Indigenous genders and/or sexualities. We are interested in new and emerging critical analyses that centre anticolonial, post-colonial and decolonial positions on Indigenous sexualities and genders, and Indigenous queer health and wellbeing. Also of interest would be contributions that interrogate the broader methodological or theoretical implications in terms of health and wellbeing of (re)claiming Indigenous queer ways of doing, knowing and being as well as new and emerging political identities such as Indigiqueer.

This will facilitate a rich and nuanced interrogation of current perceptions, concerns and challenges regarding Indigenous queer health and/or wellbeing. This will also foreground practices of disruption that reimagine, remake and recreate Indigenous queer spaces and places of belonging that welcome and sustain health and wellbeing beyond modern western narratives. The special issue will be inclusive and open to papers that take a novel or innovative methodological approach and aim to expand the scope and depth of current perspectives on health and/or wellbeing from an Indigenous queer perspective and contributing to Indigenous queer global futures. The editorial team will prioritise papers written by Indigenous queer authors.

The guest editors of this special issue of Health Sociology Review are Professor Corrine T. Sullivan, Associate Professor Madi Day and Dr Kim Spurway.

Submit an abstract or proposal via email: K.Spurway@westernsydney.edu.au.

Interested authors should complete submissions by 11:59pm AEST Sunday 12 April 2026. Minimum details required include a title, abstract or proposal of research (250 words), author details, and a short bio for the lead author (50 words). Authors will be notified of the outcome of their proposal by the end of April 2026 and invited to submit a full manuscript for peer review.

If you have any questions, please email Corrinne Sullivan at corrinne.sullivan@westernsydney.edu.au.

Health Sociology Review is an international peer-reviewed journal, which publishes high quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness, and medicine. All manuscripts are subject to double-blind peer review by at least two reviewers. Authors may be invited to review another paper in the special issue.

Manuscripts for this special issue are limited to a maximum word limit of 7,500 words, including all text, footnotes and references. More information on instructions for authors, journal aims and scope, and open access options can be viewed on the Health Sociology Review website.

Publication timeline:
  • 12 April 2026: Abstract submission deadline
  • 30 April 2026: Invitation to authors to submit full manuscript
  • 14 Aug 2026: Submission deadline for full manuscripts
  • 2 Oct 2026: Reviews sent to Authors for revision
  • 22 Jan 2027: Authors resubmit revised papers
  • 8 March 2027: Manuscripts reviewed and finalised
  • 12 April 2027: Any second reviews finalised
  • 14 May 2027: All manuscripts sent to production
  • July 2027: Publication of special issue
Warm regards,
 
Guest Editors Professor Corrine T. Sullivan, Associate Professor Madi Day and Dr Kim Spurway.
 
Health Sociology Review is an international peer-reviewed journal, which publishes high quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness and medicine.

Published three times per year, the journal prioritises original research papers, papers that advance theory and methodology in the field of health sociology and special issues on matters of central importance to health sociology and related fields.

Review articles are published upon occasion, but must extend conceptual understanding in health sociology, not just review what is known about a particular topic.
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