March 24, 9:30-10:30 AM

• Holly Genovese (she/her) - Lil Nas X's Industry Baby and Queering the Prisoner Escape Narrative

• Oscar Chaidez (he/him) - Queer, Old, Female: The (Abject) Body in the Transgressive Lyrics of Liliana Felipe and Jesusa Rodríguez

• Siri Gurudev (they/ them/elle) - Queer Utopia and Disappointment: the Day Liliana Felipe and Jesusa Rodríguez Broke my Heart (and the Pursuit of Hope)

• Chuqi Min (she/ her) - Queer and Unaware: Symbolic Annihilation of Women Medical Workers In Chinese Media and Entertainment During the Covid-19 Pandemic

March 24, 11:00-12:00 PM

• Ipek Sahinler (she/her) - Is Queer’s Future Queer?

• Michael Cordova (any pronouns) - Man’s Queer Desire: A Transparent Quest to Structuralize Black Existence

• Pau Benavides (they/them) - Healing Utopias: The Dreamwork of an Abolitionist Future

• Joseph Tibiru (they/he) - Vision of Love-Envisioning the Possibilities of an Abolitionist Project

March 24, 1:00-2:00 PM

• Joseph Rojas, Jr. (he/him) - Queer Cearense Transcultural Landscapes: Glitter: Em Busca de um Sonho

• Katherin Tairo-Quispe (she/her) - Narratives of Development and Indigenous Quechua Peoples

• Priscilla K. Lugo (she/her) - Stranded in Nepantla: Mexican Asylum Seekers Stuck in the Margins of Asylum

• Silvana Scott (she/her) - Debunking the Promises of Peruvian Multiculturalism in Yanna’s “Marcaperu”

March 24, 2:30-3:30 PM

• Marc Pereira (he/him) - The Resistance in Persistence: A Narrative Analysis on the Academic Persistence of University Students with Disabilities

• Alexis Riley (she/her) - kin • song: ode to disability ancestors / “Mapping Neuroqueer Desire Through Performance Cartography”

• izzy garcia (she/they) - clara: a short story on disability, intergenerational trauma, archiving community grief, function of love + research

March 24, 4:00-5:00 PM

• Alex Cunningham (she/her) - Charting Sexy Tings: Quarantine & Networking Insurgent Queer Desire

• Sarah Frankie Summers (she/her) - A Queer Religion

• Jess Goldstein-Kral (they/he) - “I felt like I was missing out on myself”: Queer Women’s Journeys from Monogamy to Polyamory

• Kaitlin AB Passafiume (she/her) - Sexual Mongrels and Defiant Desire: Queer Responses to an Historical Politics of Homo- and Transphobia in Chile (1973-Present)

March 24, 5:30-6:00 PM

• Erika Slaymaker (she/her) - Gender Flashpoints at the Texas Legislature: Longing Beyond the Gender Binary

• Atalia Israeli-Nevo (she/her) - Longing for Affirmation: Queer Desire and Neoliberal Identities

March 25, 10:00-11:00 AM

• Michal Calo (she/her) - Jewish Women’s Queer Political Poetics

• Weston Richey (they/them) - "The only thing that makes dying this young fair": Queerness, Grief, and Impossible Love in Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End

• Junika Hawker-Thompson (she/her) - Diasporic Desires: Violence as the Catalyst of Movement

March 25, 11:30-12:15 PM

• Shannon Woods (she/her) - Buying Time: Queer Temporalities and Post-Tragedy Consumption

• Giulia Oprea (they/she) - “A Longing to Traverse Boundaries: The Surveillance and Control of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Bodies”

• Shukri Bana (she/her) - “I sound like a fucking monster”: Breathing and Desire in Tyler, The Creator’s IGOR

March 25, 1:00-1:30 PM

• Patricia Romero (she/her) - From “Symbolic Value” to “Queer Politics:” Queering Friendship Between Women of Color

• A.J. Walker (she/her) - Unpurpose Queer: Subtly and Overtly Queer Characters in Disney Channel Shows

March 25, 1:45-3:00 PM

• Julia Echternach (she/her) - “My voice and our stories are a lot more important”: the curricular desires of pre-service teachers of color

• Alex Satterfield (they/she) & Liz Green (she/her) - Longing for Belonging: An Exploration of Institutional Support for Trans & Non-Binary College Students

• Sara Hutchinson (she/her) - Writing for Our Lives: Queering Youth Education.

• M. Yvonne Taylor (she/her) - "We Don't Even Have a Name": Women Knowledge Workers Show Themselves Out