A number of our lab members have organized this year’s Graduates in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies hybrid conference, “Feminist Perspectives on Body, Disability, and Health,” which will take place on March 4th and 5th (next week!). FemTechLab Director, Andrea Miller, will be providing one of the keynote addresses, “On Being Sick and Sad in Feminist Technology Studies.” Please join us for this international conference next week, which we’ll substitute in place of our regular lab time next Friday. Registration link below!
The Graduates in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies are pleased to invite you to the Feminist Perspectives on Body, Disability, and Health hybrid conference in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on Tuesday, March 4th and Wednesday, March 5th. All are welcome and attendance is free. Please register in advance here to attend. Zoom links for online attendees will be sent closer to the event. You can find the conference schedule here.
Our current moment serves as an exigence for this conference theme, in a cultural atmosphere of pandemic(s), coerced medical assistance in dying, insufficient and dwindling access to social security and health insurance, the devaluing and abandonment of disabled lives, historical legacy of eugenics, ongoing threats to bodily autonomy, and increasing pressures of neoliberalism. Our conference theme considers whose bodies, abilities, and health are granted protection or treated as fungible. We bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are eager to explore the intersections of embodiment and corporeality; health, illness, and wellness; and broad perspectives and frameworks on disability within feminist, queer, and trans studies
We look forward to hosting such an exciting group of scholars and are eager to learn more about their contributions! We hope you will join us online or in-person for one or both days of the conference!