Navigating Normativities: Queering Institutions and Challenging Inequalities
2015 Queer Studies Conference at UNC Asheville
Wednesday, April 1
6:00 to 9:00pm
Preconference Reception: Loving After Lifetimes of All This
Queer Studies Conference reception at the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design at 67 Broadway Street,
downtown Asheville. Including work from over 15 artists, and archives nationwide, this exhibition
highlights craft practice as a form of cultural resistance. Assistant Director, Marilyn Zapf will give a brief
presentation at 7pm.
Wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Thursday, April 2
9:00 to 4:00pm
Registration/Highsmith Union, Upper Floor Hallway
10:00 to 10:30am
Opening Meet and Greet/ Pinnacle, Highsmith Union
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Panel 1: Let’s Talk about Sex/ Highsmith Union 222
Moderator: Sarah Judson, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
10:30 to 11:45am
Sexual Health in Women Who Have Sex with Women's Relationships: An Analysis of Interview and
Media Messages • Andrea Davis, Western New England University, MA
Differences in HIV Prevalence among Men who have Sex with Men in Urban and Rural Counties in
North Carolina • Brian Keith Beaman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Queer Theory as Applied to Comprehensive Sexual Education • Molly McKinney, University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
The Lavender Phallus: Gay Men's Misogyny in the Queer Community • Wesley Stevens, University of
North Carolina Asheville, NC
Panel 2: The Ties that Bind? / Highsmith Union 223
Moderator: Leisa Rundquist, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Challenging Queer Orthodoxy: Liberatory Discourse in the Federal Marriage Decisions • Allison
Fernley, Salt Lake Community College, UT
The Good Ship Sanctity: Unpacking the "Sanctity of Marriage" Argument in LGBTQ Politics• Melissa
Sibley, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
(Un)tying the Knot: Reconciling Gay Leather Politics with the Movement for Marriage Equality • Scott
Olson, Grinnell College, IA
Queering Divorce: Resisting Hetero-patriarchy and Transforming Shame • Natalie Williams, Drew
University, NJ
11:45 to 12:45am
1:00 to 2:15pm
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Lunch/Grotto, Highsmith Union
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Panel 1: The Persistence of Neoliberalism/ Highsmith Union 221
Constructing the Responsible Sexual Agent in Neoliberal Sex Education • Sinikka Elliot, North
Carolina State University, NC
The Trouble with the Phrase ‘Intersecting Identities’: LGBT-Affirmative Psychotherapy and the
Neoliberalization of Mental Health • Patrick Grzanka, University of Tennessee, TN
Narrating the Neoliberal Sexual Self: Stigma Management among Latina/o Youth • Emily Mann,
University of South Carolina, SC
Panel 2: Forging Identities Against the Mainstream /Highsmith Union 222
Moderator: Wesley Stevens, University of North Carolina , Asheville
Understanding Asexual Identity Development • Meredith Gasaway, Western Carolina University, NC
I Don't Want Solidarity If It Means Holding Hands With you: the Role of Identity in the Mainstreaming
of Queer Politics • Skramz Geist, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, MD
Queering the Coming-Out Story: the Evolution of Identity • Wendy Weber, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Fifty Shades of Falsehood: The Mainstreaming, Straight-Washing, White-Washing and Cis-Washing
in Fifty Shades of Gray. • Taylor Daly, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Panel 3: Queering the Literary Empire / Highsmith Union 223
Moderator: Regine Criser, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Ordinary Femininity • Tiffany Ball, University of Michigan, MI
The Family's Destruction as Site of Political Rebellion: Queering Desire in The God of Small Things •
Geovanni Gomez, Grinnell College, IA
Deterritorializing Heterosexist Flows in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters • Kerry Manzo, Texas Tech
University, TX
Queer Abjection and Obscenity in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts. • Lorena Russell, University of
North Carolina Asheville, NC
Panel 4: Open House? Complicating Industrial Complexes/ Highsmith Union 224
Moderator: Keith Bramlett, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Navigating Queer Idenity(ies) While in State Care: Invisibility and Queering the Institutions of Child
Welfare and Youth Justice • Julie Erbland and Dawn Onishenko, Ryerson University, Canada
Queering Prison Abolition: Intersections of the Prison Industrial Complex and Queer, trans, and
Gender Non-Conforming Communities • Heather Harris, Kennesaw State University, GA
When the Other Becomes Your Brother: Navigating Closets--Personal and Political • McLean Moore,
University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Bridging Boundaries: Reconciling Faith and Sexuality in Conservative West Texas• Holly Bullard,
Loyola University, IL
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2:30 to 3:45pm
Panel 1: Behind the Library/ Highsmith Union 221
Jeanie Austin • Luca McKeever, Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, IL
Panel 2: Discursive Acts and Talking Back /Highsmith Union 222
Moderator: Lorena Russell, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Discipline & Pleasure Between the Sheets: Queering Academic Discourse • Flint, Los Angeles, CA
A Gay/Straight Comparison of Gay Voices • Shane Lanning, Ball State University, IN
A Right to What?: Iranian Self-Making Through Lesbian and Gay 'Rights' Discourse • Tahereh
Aghdasifar, Emory University, GA
Equal Rights Discourse: A Shifting Terrain for Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants • Dawn Onishenko,
Ryerson University, Canada
Panel 3: From Black Mountain via Tiling to Warsaw: Queer Literary Lives / Highsmith Union 223
Moderator: John McClain, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Trans* and queer presence in the polish literature • Mateusz Krol, University of Silesia, Poland
Revisiting The Well of Loneliness: Radclyffe Hall in the Humanities Core • John McClain, University of
North Carolina Asheville, NC
Even Queerer Times in Tilling • Sophie Mills, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Panel 4: Queering the Clinic: Health Care in the Cyborg Age/ Highsmith Union 224
Moderator: Karin Peterson, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Cyborg Temporalities; or Imagining Feminist, Queer, and Crip Affinity Coalitions • Duncan Stewart,
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Zen at the End: Queering End-of-Life Care and Communication • Ellen Wilson Klein and Zoe Dupree
Fine, University of South Florida, FL
Queering the DSM • Mary Dickman, University of South Florida, FL
3:00 to 3:45pm
Special Session 1: Gender-Biased Language: A Game for Middle School Students / Laurel Forum,
Karpen Hall
• Nancy Goldberger and Holly Bullard, Loyola University, IL
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4:00 to 5:00pm
Plenary Session: Beyond Marriage: Building Coalitions for LGBTQ Politics /Laurel Forum, Karpen
Hall
Moderator: Lori Horvitz, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Discussion lead by UNC Asheville Queer Studies Conference Interns: Beck Martens, Taylor Daly, Sid
Banks, Melissa Sibley, Wesley Stevens, Oliver Richards, McLean Moore
5:15 to 6:15pm
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Reception /Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall
Sponsored by Alliance (UNC Asheville's LGBTQIA+ student group working towards full social and legal
equality), with additional support from GATE (Girls' Achievement Through Education)
Greetings from Chancellor Mary Grant
6:15 to 7:30pm
7:30 to 9:30pm
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Dinner Break/ Dinner on Your Own
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Keynote Performance: Kate Clinton / Lipinsky Auditorium
Introduction: Dr. Lori Horvitz, Director, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
Friday, April 3
8:30am to 4:00pm
Registration/Karpen Hall, First Floor Lobby
8:30 to 9:00am
Breakfast/ Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum
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Panel 1: Hacking Normativity: Participatory Disruption, Diffusion, Dampening/ Karpen Hall 035
9:00 to 10:15am
Will Banks, East Carolina University, NC
Kim Thompson, East Carolina University, NC
Thomas Passwater, East Carolina University, NC
Rex Rose, East Carolina University, NC
Stephanie West-Puckett, East Carolina University, NC
Panel 2: Getting Graphic with Sapphics/Karpen Hall 106
Moderator: Ayelet Reiter, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Gay Shame, Gay Pride, and the Risk of Intimacy: reading Julie Maroh's Blue is the Warmest Color •
Tammy Kirk, Otterbein University, OH
How to Queer a Lesbian Story: Fun Home as Coming-Out Text • Andrea Harris, Mansfield University,
PA
Reading the Political Queerness of Lesbianism through Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out For • Lauren
Malotra-Gaudet, Barnard College, Columbia University, NY
Panel 3: Cinematic Explorations of Queer Crossings /Karpen Hall 033
Moderator: Jay Poole, University of North Carolina Greensboro, NC
Self-Therapy through Melodramatic (Re)enactment: Cinematic Affect and Queer Performativity in R.
W. Fassbinder's In a Year of 13 Moons and Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation • Joseph Shepard,
University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
I'm Not Queer!: Exploring Shame as a Barrier in Male-to-Male Relationships • Jay Poole, University of
North Carolina Greensboro, NC
Trashing Identity: Queering Boundaries with Bad Taste and Divine's Passing-In-Drag • Loran Marsan,
Ohio University, OH
Navigating the Homonational Turn through Angels in America • Ian Byrd, Grinnell College, IA
Panel 4: Curating Community: Shame and Celebration in the Arts /Karpen Hall 241
Moderator: Lori Horvitz, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Art and the Fear of Queer • Anna Helgeson, Asheville NC
Giving Voice to Shame and Pride: The San Diego Gay Men's Chorus as a Site for Community • Aaron
Gurlly, Beloit College, WI
The Museum Queered: Reframing Museum Collecting and Curatorial Practice • Xavier Watson,
Indiana University, IN
LGBT+ Convocation and the Experience of Belonging Project • Jacqueline Alvarez and Victoria Cueva,
University of California Fresno, CA
Panel 5: Queering Archives / Karpen Hall 011
Archiving Pleasures: Some Queer Comparisons • Zeb Tortorici, New York University, NY
Orange is the New Archive • Debra Levine, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The P.O. Box 6161 Archive • Kevin Murphy, University of Minnesota, MN
Visual Activism: Archive or Offering? An African Queer Studies Perspective • Elliot James, University
of Minnesota, MN
10:15 to 10:30am
10:30 to 11:45am
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Beverage Break/ Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall
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Panel 1: Contemporary Authors' Queer Revisions of Nature, Home and Activism/ Karpen Hall 106
Nature as Liberatory Queer Space in Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime Against Nature • Rachel Stein, Siena
College, NY
Nature As "Safe House" in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home • Katie Hogan, University of North Carolina
Charlotte, NC
Queer Sexuality and Feminist Activism in The Fifth Sacred Thing • Gail Cohee, Brown University, RI
Panel 2: Navigating Normativity: Southern Style / Karpen Hall 110
Moderator: Melissa Burchard, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Transacting Hospitality: Queer Welcome In Mississippi's Small Businesses • Kelley Frances Fenelon,
Vanderbilt University, TN
Never Danced a Step or Had Any Normal Good times: Hulga/Joy's Queer Resistance I Flannery
O'Connor's "Good Country People"• Christine Atkins, Corning Community College (SUNY), NY
The Splendor and the Misery: Reading the Body in Samuel Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest
Spiders • Lavelle Porter, William Paterson University, NJ
Panel 3: Subverting Sex: Going All the Ways/ Karpen Hall 011
Moderator: Suzanne Ashworth, Otterbein University, OH
Queering Polyamory: Visibility Within the Negotiation of Sexuality Binaries • Megan Hurson,
University of Colorado-Boulder, CO
Shame and Fear and Guilt! Oh My! Bareback as a Form of Subversion • David Galban, Kennesaw State
University, GA
Strange Therapy: An Autoethnography of Being in 'the Lifestyle' • Molly McKinney, University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
The Scientific Body and Unclaimed Death in Poe's Valdemar • Suzanne Ashworth. Otterbein
University, OH
Panel 4: Vampires, Prisons, and Fag-hags, O' My! / Karpen Hall 139
Moderator: Kirk Boyle, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Orange is the New Black: Queering New Media • Stacie Sexton and Becky Baylor, University of North
Carolina Asheville, NC
Marking the Diseased Lover: Transgressing Sexual Culture and Place-Making in HBO's True Blood •
Sarah Holder, University of Mississippi, MS
Fag-Haggery in Glee: Where Does It Leave Us? • Joshua Blake Jones, Miami University, OH
Still Blue, A Reading/ Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall
Robby Nadler, University of Georgia, GA • Keith Banner • Wendell Ricketts
12:00 to 1:00pm
1:15 to 2:30pm
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Lunch/ Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall
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Panel 1: Lives at the Margins: Feminism, Labor and the Law/Karpen Hall 139
Moderator: Keith Bramlett, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Do Queer Lives Matter? Progress for Some GLBT Folks Can Mean Payment by Others • Anne Balay
Lines in the Sand: How Legal Line-Drawing Divorced Law and Social Science's Understanding of Sex
and Gender in American Jurisprudence • Reilly-Owen Gabriel Clemens, University of Florida, FL
Where the Wild Theories Are: A Look at Queer Marginalization within Feminism • Stacey Gullion,
University of South Carolina, SC
Mapping Queer Transnationalism • Sushmita Chatterjee, Appalachian State University, NC
Panel 2: Beasts, Beats, and Beeps/Karpen Hall 011
Moderator: Eva Bares, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
A Queer Hip Hop Head • Bridget Ford, Emerson College, MA
Repressing Same-sex Discourse and Sexual Behavior: Releasing the Monster from the Closet •
Michael Catanzaro, Tennessee State University, TN
Smartphone Applications for Gay Men: A Place of Exclusion Within a Place of Inclusion • Michael
Bartone, Georgia State University, GA
Queer Literary Reading 3/ Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall
Moderator: Lori Horvitz, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Lori Horvitz, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
David Hopes, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Holly Iglesias, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Jozef Lizowski, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Mandy Gardner, UNC Asheville Alum, Asheville, NC
1:15 to 2:45pm
Panel 4: Navigating Queer Pedagogies/Karpen Hall 035
Moderator: Melissa Himelein, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Queering the Classroom • Dennis Knight, Halifax County Schools, NC
Jennifer and the (Sorta) Terrible, (Kinda) Horrible, (Maybe) No Good, (Iffy) Very Bad Feminist
Pedagogy Day: A Personal Paradox, With Notes • Jennifer Iceton, University of South Florida, FL
Queering Professional Scripts in the Classroom• Kaeleen Kosmo and Sandra Carpenter, University of
South Florida, FL
Measuring Inclusivity in Educational Research: A Ten-Year Perspective • Julianne Guillard, University
of Richmond, VA and Allison Kootsikas, Pennsylvania State University, PA
2:30 to 2:45pm
2:45 to 4:00pm
Dangerous Centers: The Birth of Alternative Academies in Twentieth-Century North America
• Faron Levesque, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
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Beverage Break/ Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall
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Panel 1: Spectacular Spaces: Alternative Readings of Queer Media Images / Karpen Hall 035
Cissy' Privilege vs. Trans Girlhood: Cartman and the Politics of Trans Representation on South Park •
Katlin Bollinger, University of South Carolina Upstate, SC
Oh Snap! An Alternative Girlhood!: Raven-Symone and Queer Black Girl Visibility • Heather Dykes,
University of South Carolina Upstate, SC
Janet Mock, #girlslikeus, and the Reality/Myth Binary in LGBTQ Culture • Monique Gardner,
University of South Carolina Upstate, SC
South Park is So Not Gay: tolerance Rhetoric in Popular Media • Brooke Henry, University of South
Carolina Upstate, SC
Panel 2: Multiple Layers of Othering/Karpen Hall 033
Moderator: Anne Jansen, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Homophobia Among College Students• Holly Walker, Karin Butler and Robert Lindsay, Johnson C.
Smith University, NC
Non-binary Not Masculine: The Demonization of Femininity & Its Effects on the Construction of
Nonbinary Gender Expression • Beck Martens, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Passimilation: Passing is Assimilating • Sid Banks, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
"You not gonna hurt my feelings or destroy who I worked so hard to become because I'm not
straight:" Influences in the Identity Formation of Black Gay Young Males • Michael Bartone, Georgia
State University, GA
Panel 3: Reimagining Childhood: Representing Queer Youth/ Karpen Hall 011
Moderator: Lorena Russell, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
The Right to Representation in Gay and Lesbian Young Adult Literature • Pi Fong, Clark University,
MA
Tomboy Trans Girls and Princess Boys: Navigating Childhood Gender Norms • Jessica Ann Vooris,
University of Maryland, MD
The Penis Test • Robby Nadler, University of Georgia, GA
Panel 4: Simply Divine: Intersections between Faith and Lived Experience/ Karpen Hall 106
Moderator: Melissa Sibley, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Queer Theory on Queer Theology: Understanding Intersections between Christian Theologies and
LGBT Identities • Weston Morris, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
A Tight Knit Family: Queering the American Jewish Family through William Finn's Falsettos • Ayelet
Reiter, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Workshop 5: Pleasure as Power: Tackling Sexual Violence on Campus through a Queer Inclusive
Sex Positive Framework/Karpen Hall 005
4:00 to 4:45pm
5:00 to 6:15pm
Melina McConatha, West Chester University, PA
Johanna Rodriguez, West Chester University, PA
Andrea Kocj, West Chester University, PA
Julie Belling, West Chester University, PA
Jamie Berg, West Chester University, PA
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Reception/ Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall
Sponsored by UNC Asheville's Feminist Collective, with additional support from GATE (Girls' Achievement
Through Education)
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Keynote Address: Urvashi Vaid/ Humanities Lecture Hall
Beyond The Wedding Ring: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics • Urvashi
Vaid, Columbia Law School, NY
Introduction: Provost Joseph Urgo
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6:30 to 9:00pm
Queer Seder/ Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall
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Saturday, April 4
8:30 to 10:00am
Registration/Scholarship Deck, Sherrill Center
8:30 to 9:00am
Breakfast/ Scholarship Deck, Sherrill Center
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Panel 1: Navigating Normativities in Health Promotion/Sherrill 411
Moderator: Amy Lanou, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
9:00 to 10:15am
Making LGBTQ Funding/Policy the “Norm” • Rebecca Reeve, North Carolina Center for Health and
Wellness, NC
Non-normative Bodies: Body Measurement, Image, and Esteem • Aubri Rote, University of North
Carolina Asheville, NC
Queer Foodways and Health • Amy Lanou, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Does it Get Better or Bitter: A Critique of the 'It Gets Better' Campaign • Oliver Richards, University
of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Workshop 2: Equality and Intersectionality within the LGBTQI Community: Workshop/Sherrill 410
Owen Elizabeth Conley, Jay M. Robinson High School, NC
Panel 3: Queer Youth Activism and the Internet/Sherrill 407
Moderator: Michelle Powell, Indiana University, IN
How We Got Here: De-radicalization and Mainstreaming Within the Queer Community • Bryant
Hayes, Indiana University, IN
Filling the Void: How LGBTQ Youth Educate Each Other and Themselves Online • Susannah Beckman,
Indiana University, IN
How One Direction Fanfiction Made Me Gay and Trans • Josie Wenig, Indiana University, IN
Workshop 4: The Magical History Tour: Imagining the Lesbian Past/Sherrill 402
Paula Martinac, University of North Carolina Charlotte, NC
Panel 5: Queers on Film/Sherrill 406
Moderator: Alice Weldon, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
The Queerness of the Baroque: Thinking about 'drag' within a Baroque framework; or Can Film
Theory 'Do Drag' • Mark West, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Asexual Narratives of Identity and Community Building • Amy Borg, University of North Carolina
Asheville, NC
10:15 to 11:15am
11:15 to 12:30pm
Getting Off the Pornographic and Turning on the Erotic: A Mediation for Female Sexuality • Al
Humber, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
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Queer English Tea/ Mountain View Room, Sherrill 417
with Roundtable Discussions
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Panel 1: Navigating Visibilities, Inclusivity, Normalcies, and Boundaries in K12 and Scholarly
Environments/Sherrill 411
Navigating Identity in the Rural High School Classroom• Jessica L. Jones, Lee Early College, NC
Challenging Normal • Joshua R. Gardner, Appalachian State University, NC
Queer Disciplinary Constraints and Opportunities • Matthew Cox, East Carolina University, NC and
Michael Faris, Texas Tech University, TX
Panel 2: Happy Endings: Literary Sleuths, Divas and Don Juans/Sherrill 407
Moderator: Oliver Richards, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Queering the Myth of Gender in Byron’s “Don Juan” • Shauna Musser, University of Colorado Denver,
CO
Death of the Diva: A Queer Reading of Dr. Maya Angelou• Eric Gant, University of North Carolina
Asheville, NC
Panel 3: Trans-Formation, Chaos Theory, Climate Change and Corporeality/Sherrill 402
Moderator: Beck Martens, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Bringin’ Home the Bacon: Transgender Men’s Experiences in the Workplace • Caroline Ellis Duble,
Spirit in Action, NC
Population, Climate, Gender, Feminism • Rob Faunce, John Jay College, NY
Strange Attractors: Queers, Chaos and Evolution • Shaun Bartone, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, Canada
Workshop 4: Lesbian Sexual Health: Reaching a Vulnerable Population/ Sherrill 410
Workshop presented by Alex Karydi, South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, SC
Panel 5: Queering Turtle Island: Two Spirits and Indigenous Genders and Sexualities/ Sherrill 406
Moderator: Trey Adcock, University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Wesley Stevens (Mohawk), University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Alex Sampson (Lumbee), University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
Priscilla Squirrel (Eastern Band of Cherokee), University of North Carolina Asheville, NC
1:00 to 3:00pm
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Performance and Workshop: The Making of Qtopia/ Mountain View Room, Sherrill 417
Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:
Office of the Provost, Dr. Joseph Urgo
Dean of Social Sciences, Dr. Jeffery Konz
Dean of University Programs, Dr. Ed Katz
Amy Mandel and Katina Rodis Fund
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, Sophie JV Mills
Inquiry ARC
North Carolina Center for Health and Wellness
P.B. Parris Fund
Center for Teaching and Learning
Department of Management and Accountancy
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
John McClain
Department of Health and Wellness
Office of Cultural Events and Special Academic Programs
Breman Professor of Social Relations, Amy Joy Lanou
Humanities Program
Alliance Student Organization
Feminist Collective
UNC Asheville’s Hillel
GATE (Girls’ Achievement Through Education)
Avenue M
Edna’s of Asheville (ednasofasheville.com)
Malaprop’s Books
Fine Arts Theater
Queer Studies Conference Organizational Committee
Katie Cox & Susan Maas, Amazing Administrative Support Team
Lori Horvitz
Lorena Russell
Sophie Mills
Amy Joy Lanou
Sylvia J. Pierce
Amanda Wray
Anne Jansen
Kirk Boyle
Ayelet Reiter
Oliver Richards
Wesley Stevens
Melissa Burchard
Jozef Lisowski
Jodi Gerberg
Val Cruchon
Weston Morris
Rachel Stein