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