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UF Well-Represented at NWSA Annual Conference

In Chronological Order:

Advice for New Chairs and Directors: The Politics of Knowledge Sharing and Production in WGSS

  • Panel Member: Bonnie Moradi, University of Florida

Author Meets Critics, Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora

  • Critic: Jillian Hernandez, University of Florida

Embodied Praxis and Radical Spirit: The Power of Femme of Color Aesthetics

  • Dreaming Together in Pink: The Aesthetic and Political Spirit of Femme of Color Rococo — Jillian Hernandez, University of Florida

Growing Up Feminist: Children’s Literature and Activism in Focus

  • Technofeminist Interventions: Creating new knowledge communities through girls tech camps –Shannon Butts, University of Florida

Island Feminist Studies: Theories and Feminist Praxis

  • Moderator: Manoucheka Celeste, University of Florida

Ku’er, Lesbian, and Trans Resistance to State Violence and Repression

  • Resistencia Sapatão: Black Lesbians, and Human Rights in Brazil Necropolitics – Mariana Meriqui Rodrigues, University Of Florida

#LoveWITHAccountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

  • Presenter: Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, University of Florida

Political Resistance Through Feminist Art and Literature

  • Colonialism and Potatoes: Transnational Feminist Solidarities in the Fiction of Leanne Howe and Leslie Marmon Silko – Alyssa Hunziker, University of Florida

Poster Presentation and Art Reception

  • Undoing [Biological] Sex: Understanding the Body as Mosaic – Kelsey Lewis, University of Florida
  • Visualizing the Future: Black Trans Afrofuturism and Aesthetics of Alternative World-Making – Melissa Powers, University of Florida; Logan Neser, University of Florida
  • Where is the Queer Migrant Future? Looking Towards Queer Migrant Cultural Production – Andreina Elena Fernandez, University of Florida

Print Objects: Resisting the Status Quo in Feminist Publishing

  • Building a Cohort for Protest: Lesbians Cartoonists in Gay Comix – Margaret Galvan, University of Florida

Queer Kinship and the Alternative Family Tree

  • With Love and Solidarity: Boysan’s House as a Queer Space in Turkey – Ecem Ece, University of Florida

Tension, Promise, and the Limits of Solidarity: Rethinking Transnational Feminisms through Global Black Feminist Politics

  • Presenter: Tanya L Saunders, University of Florida

Theorizing, Locating, and Scaling Haitian feminism(s)

  • A Transnationalism Approach: Understanding Haitian immigrant women through the lens of Haitian Feminism – Alexandra Cenatus, University of Florida

Transnational and Transgenerational Mentoring: Women of Color Transforming Academic Borders

  • Moderator: Manoucheka Celeste, University of Florida
  • Presenter: Karleen Victoria Schlichtmann, University of Florida

Transnational Posthumanisms: Livestock, Bestiality, and Pornography in Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture

  • Bestiality themes in Boys Love (BL): dystopic intimacy and kinship in for-women homoerotic media – Casey Lee, University of Florida