Please see the schedule below for Day 1: Tuesday, March 25th and Day 2: Wednesday, March 26th.
Tuesday, March 25th 2025
DAY 1
10:00 - 10:30am
Conference check-in
PANEL 1
10:30 - 10:45am
Kerri Kilmer
“I Bore a Hell Within Me”: Narrative Femicide and Reproduction in "Frankenstein"
10:45 - 11:00am
Jimmy McLean
The Collaborative Composition Practice of Young LGBTQ+ Writers
11:00 - 11:15am
T Lim
Keeping Time: Queer-Crip Temporal Attunement Through Tarot
11:15 - 11:25am
Panel 1 discussion
11:25 - 11:40am
Break
11:40 - 11:50am
Welcome by Dr. Simone Browne
11:50 - 12:00pm
Keynote Speaker Introduction by Brenda Marques
12:00 - 1:30pm
Lunch and Keynote: From Grassroots to Leadership: Advancing Reproductive Justice Through Community Care by Daylisha Hall-Reid, Executive Director, Mama Sama Vibrant Woman.
1:30 - 1:45pm
Break
PANEL 2
1:45 - 2:00pm
Kross Wen
Digital healing: from individual survival to collective care-reimaging workplace health in Chinese women's literature
2:00 - 2:15pm
Molly Deaver
“The living substance of all my books”: Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropisms as Rhetorical X-Factor
2:15 - 2:25pm
Panel 2 discussion
2:25 - 2:40pm
Break
PANEL 3
2:40 - 2:55pm
Holly Genovese
Finding the Space to Dream: Abolition Pedagogy and Women’s Health in a Texas Women’s Prison
2:55 - 3:10pm
Leah Austin
Art talk: Hysteria
Walk to WCP 1.118 to interact with the sculpture.
3:25pm
Closing at WCP 1.118
Wednesday, March 26th 2025
DAY 2
10:00 - 10:45am
Conference check-in
PANEL 1
10:45 - 11:00am
Mateo Hernandez
Teaching Drama as an Act of Abolition
11:00 - 11:15am
Laysha González
Perreo y poder: how reggaeton has created a safe space for latine, bipoc, lgbtqia+, and immigrant students at the university of texas at austin after sb-17 erased them
11:15 - 11:25am
Alyssa Nicole Fisher
Rest is Unrivaled: The New Unrivaled Basketball League and its Autonomy to Women’s Professional Basketball Players
11:25 - 11:40am
Panel 1 discussion
11:40 - 12:00pm
Break and Lunch
PANEL 2
12:15 - 12:30pm
Abundance Ogodogu-Chima
Relationship Between Access to Resources, Economic Participation, and Gender Insecurity Among Women and Adolescent Girls in Nigeria
12:30 - 12:45pm
Neha Yawalkar
Assisted Reproductive Technology for LGBTQ+ Communities in India
12:45 - 12:55pm
Panel 2 discussion
1:00 - 1:15pm
Break
PANEL 3
1:15 - 1:30pm
Sarah Summers
Community Music Experiences
1:30 - 1:45pm
Jacinta Tran, Moo Sun Kim
All is Fair in Love and Identity: Exploring Differences in YouTube Comments for Sexuality and Trans Identity Coming Out Videos
1:45 - 2:00pm
Maria Fernanda Veloz Salas
Mujeres de la Tierra, Mujeres de la Periferia: Indigenous Heritage, Gender Dynamics, and Collective Resilience
2:00 - 2:15pm
Panel discussion
2:15pm
Closing in RLP 1.302B
A very special thanks to our co-sponsors:
Sociology
The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Sissy Farenthold Reproductive Justice Defense Project
American Studies
Theatre and Dance
The Warfield Center
Microcosm Publishing, Portland Oregon
And thank you to the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies faculty, staff, and student workers for their labor in organizing this conference!