WGSS Speaker Series Archives

Fall 2024

Mike Ziri from Equality Illinois presenting "Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice in Illinois: Policy and Advocacy" on October 10
Charlotte Hoffmann of Carle BroMenn presenting "Your Voice, Your Choice: An LGBTQ+ Healthcare Power of Attorney Workshop" on November 13

Dr. Shelley Park and Dr. Jen Sandoval, University of Central Florida: "Fighting Florida's Stop WOKE Act"
Samantha Vazquez and Brigid Aslin, Illinois State University: "A Survey of Transgender Legislation in 2023"
Dr. Bridget Sundin, Illinois State University: "I Adore You Forever: The Performative Past of Mercedes de Acosta and Marlene Dietrich"
Illinois State University Faculty and Staff: "Asexuality in Media"

Travis Wagner, University of South Carolina. "The Algorithm Led Me Here: Using Contemporary LGBTQIA+ Media Use to Understand the Future of Queer Archives"

Erin Durban-Albrecht, Illinois State University. "Religious Sexual Politics in Haiti: Vodou, Catholicism, and Protestantism"
Ronak Kapadia, University of Illinois at Chicago. "Outer Views, or Palestine in the Sky: Arab Futurisms, Atmospheric Warfare, and Queer Cosmic Utopias"
Justin Vickers, Illinois State University. "The Midcentury Politics of the Closet in Great Britain"

Amber Jamilla Musser, Washington University. "Queering Sugar: Kara Walker and Spectacular Female Sexuality"
Dylan McCarthy Blackston, University of Arizona. "Monkey Business: Trans*, Animacy, and Colonial Boundaries of Kind"
Mario LaMothe, University of Illinois at Chicago. "Our Love on Fire: Gay Men's Stories of Violence and Hope in Haiti"
Carley Thomsen, Middlebury College. "Queering the Rural: Visibility, Politics, and Production of Place"
Miranda Joseph, University of Arizona. "Envisioning Queer Collectivity, Contesting Racial Capitalism"
Toby Beauchamp. "On Bathrooms and Borders"
Brooke Lober, Sonoma State University. "Women Against Imperialism: Tracing Queer/Feminist Revisions of Home"