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10:00am CDT

Making Sense of the Anti-Trans Turn

Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

Trump and the MAGAtized Republican Party have taken advantage of voters’ anxieties and created a sense of panic surrounding transgender issues. However, what remains less clear are the reasons why these appeals resonate with certain voters, what drives this particular political reaction, and how the Left can effectively respond.

Speakers

Danielle Bullock

Danielle Bullock is a queer, Brooklyn-born artist, activist and public school educator. She is a union chapter leader and member of the MORE caucus of the UFT. She is also a member of the Tempest Collective.

Eric Maroney

Eric Maroney (he/him) teaches at Gateway Community College where he is active with his faculty union. His work has appeared in Tempest Magazine, New Politics, Spectre Journal, and the English Journal. He is a member of the Tempest Collective.

Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

1:00pm CDT

Carceral Natalism: Technology and Surveillance in the Post-Dobbs Era

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

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The fall of Roe ushered in both new abortion restrictions and novel methods for their enforcement. This session will chart the anti-abortion movement’s adoption of surveillance techniques that have long been used in the policing of racialized populations in the United States and abroad, from location tracking to biometric security. As the carceral state tightens its grip on our bodies and futures, the mantra “we keep us safe” takes on renewed urgency.

Speakers

Emily Janakiram

Megan Lessard

Sponsors

NYC for Abortion Rights

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

7:00pm CDT

Enemy Feminisms: Reckoning with TERFs, Policewomen, and Zionist Feminists

Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT

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Join Sophie Lewis for an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms—from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion, TERF, and Zionist feminists. By way of a reckoning with these counterproductive, violent feminisms, this session will make the case for the bold, liberatory, antifascist feminist politics we need instead.

Speakers

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis is a writer. Her books, Enemy Feminisms, Full Surrogacy Now, and Abolish the Family, have been translated into nine languages. Sophie grew up in France, half-British, half-German, but now lives in Philadelphia and teaches online courses on utopian theory at the Brooklyn... Read More →

Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

7:00pm CDT

Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics

Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT

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What are the consequences of state legislators voting on the definition of sex, or a president demanding every agency in the federal government construe sex as fixed at conception? How might trans communities respond to being the target of a manufactured moral panic? What alternate visions of "sexual democracy" might transgender activism and theorizing propose in response?

Speakers

Paisley Currah

Paisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Currah’s prize-winning 2022 book, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, revealed the hidden logics that... Read More →

Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
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Gender-Sexuality-Liberation