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Join Us at the

11th annual Gender & Sexuality Conference

on Friday, October 18, 2024

Rhatigan Student Center (3rd floor)

on the campus of 麻豆破解版 State University

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Parking:

For those not affiliated with WSU, please click here for details about visitor parking options and map.  We have reserved parking spots in lot 24 (off 17th Street). They will be indicated by orange cones that you will need to move.

For those affiliated with WSU, please follow standard parking protocols to ensure reserved spots are available to our off campus attendees. 

2024 Conference Agenda

• 8:30-9:00 am: Check-in/Registration and light refreshments
• 9:00-9:30 am: Welcome & Community Organization Showcase 
• 9:45-10:45 am: Session 1
  • Breakout A (Beggs Ballroom):  Advocating for Affirming Spaces & Services
    • Wooley & Wray: SOUL Family: Creating Protective Factors for LGBTQAI Youth in Kansas DCF Custody 
    • Neihaus: Expanding Torres' Rights of the Learner for Trans and Queer in K-12 Classrooms 
    • Gutsch: Addressing Care Needs for LGBTQ+ and Trans Patients in Emergency Medicine  
  • Breakout B (Gridley) Workshop: 
    • Graham & Goen: Unveiling the Impact: Anti-Fat Bias and Survivors of Sexual Assault 
• 11:00am-12:00 pm: Session 2
  • Breakout A (Beggs Ballroom):  Gender Expressions & Relationships 
    • Hill, Hertzog, & Simon: Intersections of Age & Gender in Mid- and Later-Life Adult's Perceptions of Online Dating. 
    • Villa & Paunetto: "Somos Shockers: Beyond the Stereotype" 
    • Lentenbrink, Corral, & Muehlenhard: The proclivity to pretend: Exploring gender differences in faking orgasms among college students 
  • Breakout B (Gridley) Workshop: 
    • Thi: Liberation For One Is Liberation For All:  尝别迟鈥檚 Talk about Gender, Sexuality, Race, Queerness, and Mental Health
• 12:00-1:15 pm: Lunch (on your own)
• 1:30-2:30 pm: Session 3
  • Breakout A (Beggs Ballroom): Experiences of Gender & Sexuality in Music & Art 
    • Ricker: Life on the Podium and Out of the Closet: LGBTQ+ Collegiate Wind Band Conductor鈥檚 Experiences of (In)Dignity in the Workplace 
    • Pedersen: Women Composers: An Interdisciplinary Analytical Approach to Gender In and Out of the Concert Hall 
    • Gingrich Gaylord: Find your way home (a work of art)
  • Breakout B (Gridley) Workshop:
    • Heilman: Navigating Gender and Sexuality-Based Trauma: An Emotional Ecology Approach  
• 2:45-3:45 pm: Session 4
  • Breakout A (Beggs Ballroom):  Systemic Explorations of Sexual Violence
    • Abeywickrama: Investigating Campus Stakeholder experiences in Addressing Campus Sexual Violence through the Lens of Institutional Courage 
    • Gordon: Horrendous Intersections: Rape in a Time of Genocide 
  • Breakout B (Gridley):  Representations of Gender & Sexuality in Literature & Music 
    • Jones: Sarah Orne Jewett: Representing the 19th Century Goddess 
    • Soneviseth: Brat Existentialism 
• 4:00-5:00 pm: Keynote Presentation
  • Dr. Meg Paceley: Health, Activism, Community, and Resistance in an Era of Anti-LGBTQ+ Policy, Legislation, and Rhetoric.
• 5:00-6:00 pm: Networking Reception