Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin

Audio / Visual Destabilizations

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

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Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin

Building Upon the Theoretical Terrain

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

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Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin

Interventions From The Global South

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”

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Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin

Affective Attunements: Disability and Queerness

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

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Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin Thursday | March 24th CWGS Austin

Intimacy in the Unruly Terrain

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)

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