I’ll be presenting my paper from Dr. Reynold’s Mining the Archives class last term at this hybrid conference March 4-5. A lot of interesting topics on the agenda:

FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON BODY, DISABILITY, AND HEALTH

PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE

A Penn State Graduates in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Conference

Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, Penn State, State College, PA 16802

Tuesday, March 4 and Wednesday, March 5, 2025 

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 hope to 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 conceive of body, disability, and health broadly, but are particularly interested in papers that examine trans disability studies or bridging the gap between STEM fields and feminist embodied practices.