The Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is proud to have strong representation at this year’s WGS South Conference, featuring faculty and student-led panels, roundtables, and workshops that highlight critical feminist and queer scholarship.
Our faculty will be represented in The History of Feminist Action Alliance: A Model for Intergenerational Collaboration, moderated by Morna Gerrard at the Swanton Amphitheater.
Graduate and undergraduate students from Georgia State University will participate in several engaging panels:
- Student Caucus: Black Resilience – Zaree Ross, “Gardening as Black Women’s Resistance: The Work of Anne E. Spencer”
- BIPOC Caucus Panel – Art, Space, and Narrative: Exploring Intersectional Identity Representation and Collective Memory in Atlanta, Georgia – Antionette Brown-Waithe, “Words in Our My Hearts, Fire Beneath Our Feet” (Moderator: Antionette Brown-Waithe)
- Student Caucus: Women in Resistance – Zaree Ross, “Black Women in Nature: An Oral History”
- Student Caucus Roundtable: Phases of Feminati – Building and Growing a Feminist Club on a Small Southern Campus (Moderator: Dana Wiggins)
- Hannah Grace Bemis, Josie Bunnell, Jor Hawk, Lizbeth Martinez
- BIPOC Caucus Panel – Intersections of Identity, Education, and Justice: BIPOC Existing in and Responding to the Margins – Devin Thorton, “The Animals Talked: An Exploration of Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Tools for Social Justice Pedagogy”
- LGBTQ Caucus Panel – Envisioning Queer and Trans Lived Experiences – Monisha Jackson, “Queer Black Women's Experiences of UK LGBT+ Nightlife”
- LGBTQ Caucus Panel – Resist, Reclaim, Reimagine: Queer and Feminist Considerations for Building Liberatory Practices (Moderator: Jonah Munkombwe)
- Victoria Alarcon, “Legados radicales: Southern Radical Traditions Live on in Escuelitas on Buford Highway”
- Emily Pyle, “Local as Personal: Thinking Affect and Resistance with Greenville County Council’s 1996 ‘Family Values’ Resolution”
- Emrys McGovern, “Show Your Teeth: A Case for Trans Monstrosity”
- Jonah Munkombwe, “Zambia Kuchalo: A Postcolonial Analysis of National Identity and Marginalization”
Additionally, we encourage attendees to participate in the Black Feminist Writing Workshop with Stephanie Evans.
We look forward to celebrating and amplifying the vital work of our faculty and students at WGS South!