April Fools

'Living Gender in Diverse Times', the full schedule

I have been sent this utterly hilarious schedule for an upcoming Sally Hines event. A day of obfuscation, projection and dishonesty, from academics who cite each other so that their work simulates a body of knowledge. Please enjoy this, my gift to you all on International Women’s Day.

Friday 1st April & Saturday 2nd April 2022

Programme: Living Gender in Diverse Times Conference

FRIDAY 1 APRIL 2022

9.00-9.30: Registration 

9.30-10.00: Opening and Welcome with Sally Hines and Natacha Kennedy)

10.00-11.15: Keynote: Julia Serano, Feminism, Sexualization, and Anti-Trans Activism. 

(Chaired by Natacha Kennedy)

‘Julia’ Serano

11.15-12.30: Panels 1 – 4:

1. Gender ‘Critical’ Feminism in the UK (Chaired by Sally Hines)

• Natacha Kennedy: Trans Exclusionism: The normalisation of tacit and explicit marginalisation of trans people.

• Jacob Breslow, Tomás Ojeda, Emma Spruce: ‘Gender Critical’ Complaint as Time Wasting Device: How anti-gender politics depletes academic knowledge production.

• Camila Montiel McCann : The Appropriation of Trans-exclusionary “Feminism” to Reproduce and Update Hegemonic Femininity in British Broadsheet Newspapers.

• Fran Amery: ‘Gender Critical’ Feminism as Biopolitical Project.

2. Non-Binary Experiences and Practices 

• Alberto Fernández Carbajal: Enby in the Time of COVID-19: Discovering and Performing Non-Binary Identity during Lockdown.

• Tray Yeadon-Lee: Exploring the Lives, Experiences, and Identities of People in Mid and Later life who Identify as Non-binary or Genderqueer.

• Max Davies: Is The Future Gender Creative?

• Kelly: Negotiating Gender Against the Binary.

3. Gender and Education (Chaired by E.J. Reynold)

• Anna Carlile: The Buddhist Centre and the Ballet Class: How transgender and non-binary youth find their way in extra-curricular spaces.

• Katie Reynolds: Exploring the Experiences of Trans and Non-binary Educators in the UK.

• Matson Lawrence and Stephanie Mckendry: TransEDU: Experiences of trans and non-binary students and staff in further and higher education. Presented Virtually 

• Nic Aaron: How the Cis-tem Coercively Controls: Bureaucratic victim-blaming in the Neoliberal University. 

4. Teaching and Researching Gender and Sexuality

• H Howitt: Intimacy as Method in Trans Sex Research.

• James Cummings: “Currently Not Teaching Trans 101”: The experiences of trans men and masc non-binary folk in digital gay spaces.

• Vizla Kumaresan: Trans Men in Malaysia: Examining the psychological and decision-making processes in becoming men.

12.30 – 1.30: Lunch 

• Visual Arts Workshop

1.30-2.45: Keynote: Marquis Bey, Trans Radicality and Abolitionist Politics.

 (Chaired by Robin Todd)

2.45-3.45: Roundtables 1 - 3

• Gendered Violence Research Group Roundtable (Alison Phipps, Emma Rees and Ilaria Michelis): Trans and Non-binary Inclusion in Gender-Based Violence Services: Where are we and what can we do? 

• Crime and Criminal Justice Research Group Roundtable (Lizzie Seal, Hannah Mason-Bish and Kirsty McGregor): Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender Diversity. 

• Visual Cultures Research Group Roundtable: Representing Gender in Diverse Times.

3.45-4.00: Break

4.00 – 5.15 - Grace Lavery, Reading from Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis, Followed by Q & A.

(Chaired by Sally Hines)

5.15 – 5.20: Performance: Tom of Funland Does Gender Go-Go 

5.20 - 5.30: Day 1 Close (Sally Hines)

SATURDAY 2 APRIL 2022

9.00-9.30: Registration 

9.30-10.45: Keynote: Jules Gill Peterson, The Logic of Trans Panic: Misogyny, Solidarity, and Feminism

(Chaired by Dawn Woolley)

45. – 10.50 Break

10.50 – 11.50  Panels 5-8

5. Media and Representation 

• Gina Gwenffrewi: Punk Mood, Junk Food: Portrayals of Transgender Apocalypse.

• Lukasz Szulc: Digital Gender Contestations Social Media and Democracy in a Cross-Stance, Cross-Culture and Cross-Platform Perspective.

•  Olu Jenzen, Megan Collier and Matt Trenner: UK Media Representation of Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth.

• Sylvia McCheyne  ‘A Record of the Feminist Movement of a Rather Unique Sort’ A transfeminist study of Urania and the case of Irene Clyde, 1916-1940.

6. Inequality and Crime

• Sarah Lamble: Fake News, False Facts and Flawed Narratives: On the use and misuse of evidence in the Trans Prisoner Policy Debate.

• Jessica Randal: A Missed Opportunity: Consultation on amending the Gender Recognition Act 2004.

• Flick Adams, and Fabienne Emmerich, Lecturer, Keele University: Let’s Not “Wait in Silence for that Final Luxury of Fearlessness” (Lorde: [1978]): #KillTheBill, Silencing and Criminalization of Protest.

• Ben Collier and Sharon Cowan: Concept Capture and Category Co-option: Recording sex/gender data in the criminal justice system

7.  Political Movements and Activism (Chair Sally Hines)

•  Ece Kocabıçak: When the Myth of Biological Sex Damages Feminist Struggle: Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul convention.

• Braedyn Ezra Simon: “Gender Critical Feminism”: A critical look into the colonial  remnants of gender discourse.  

• Athanasia (Nancy) Francis: Affective Activisms and Allyships: Entangled Solidarities In/Through Survivor, Disability and Trans Experiences

• Mallory Moore: Trans Safety Network.

8. Trans Health Care

• Gillian Love and Elaney Youssef: Trans and Non-binary Perinatal Care: Emerging findings and new directions

• M. Stepney and S. Martin: Young Non-binary Youth and Health Care: healthtalk.org 

• Jodie Hughes: The effects of Gender on Health-related Quality of Life in People with Endometriosis

• Tereza Hendl and Loren Britton: Interrogating Gender-oppressive Social Structures: How to better support transgender people

11.50-12.00: Break

12.00-1.00: Roundtables 4 - 7

• The Queer Disabilities Studies Network Roundtable: What is it for and why does it need to exist? (Ned Coleman-Fountain, Charlotte Jones, Rhi/Harvey Humphrey and Jen Slater)

• Researching Trans People’s Marginalisation and Resistance in Social Media Roundtable (Gina Gwenffrewi and Charlotte Galpin)

• Visual Cultures

• Teaching Gender in Fraught Times: Reflections from a panel of feminist academics

1.00—1.45 Lunch 

1.45 —3.00: Keynote: Hil Malatino, The Trans Mundane: Trauma-Ordinariness and Economic Predation.

(Chaired by Lo Marshall)

3.00 – 3.10 Break

3.10 – 4.10: Panels 9 – 11

9. Embodied and Sexual Cultures

• Gemma Williams, Gemma Commane, Keeley Abbott and Annalise Weckesser: Countering Violence through Bodily Autonomy: Reflections from ‘Bean Flicks,’ an intersectional porn festival celebrating marginalised bodies and sexualities: Presented Virtually 

• Harry Wyld: The Trans Body: A Site of Political Discourse.

• Sebastian Mylly: Navigating the Cis Gaze and Staging the Trans Body.

• Matt. C. Smith: The Choreographing of Trans in and out of Urban Planning.

10. Political Theory and Resistances 

• Claire Thurlow: The Gender Critical Pivot from Anti-trans to ‘Pro-women’.

• Kit Heyam: But were They Really Trans?”: Trans histories and activism.

• Alanah Mortlock: Fear of our Anger will Teach us Nothing: How storytelling as a methodological intervention made my anger productive, and the new mode of Black feminist knowledge production it promises.

11.  Gendered and Sexual Violence

• Siouxsie Bytheway: Heteronormative Discourse: Therapist social constructions of intimate partner abuse (IPA) in queer relationships.

• Holly McSpadden: Experiences of Sexual Violence and Barriers to Sexual Violence Support Services for Sexual and Gender Minority Survivors

• Tanya Serisier:  Figures of Fear and Victimization: Personal Narratives and the Construction of Sexual Threats in ‘Gender Critical’ Discourse

4.10 – 4.15  Break

4,15 – 5.30 - Keynote: Agnieszka Graff-Osser and Elżbieta Korolczuk, Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment.

(Chaired by Emma Proctor)

5.30 – 6.00  Break

6.00 – 7.45: Film Showing of Rebel Dykes and Q&A with Directors Harri Shanahan and Sîan Williams and Producer Siobhan Fahey. 

(Chaired by Sally Hines)

7.45 - 8.00  Conference Closing 

(Sally Hines and Natacha Kennedy)