GENDERQUEER/QUEERGENDERS
Conversations Among Artists, Activists, & Academics
University of California, Santa Barbara
February 11, 12, & 13, 2005

All events are wheel chair accessible, including the cabaret night. All events are free except the cabaret night (sliding scale $3-$7). Due to the constraints of hosting this conference within the University setting, regretfully, we are unable to offer a chemical free conference. ASL interpreters will be present at plenary events and read along copies will be solicited for all panels.

SCHEDULE (subject to change)

ON GOING EVENTS

• digital art show
• film/video screenings

• Panel: Are You In or Are You Out? Research and the Politics of Identity
  Kristen Schilt: ‘Why are YOU interested in this?’: Doing Transgender Research as a Non-Transgender Person
  Eve Shapiro: Studying at Home: Doing Research Within Your Own Communities and Friendship Networks
  Elroi Waszkiewicz: ‘I’m Actually Not FTM’: Negotiating Misperception of Insider Status
  
• Panel: Will the Real Identity Please Stand Up?: Out on a Limn
  Ahmet Atay
  Shane Moreman
  Sandra L. Pensoneau
  Satoshi Toyosaki
  
• Workshop: Gotta Pee? Navigating Gender Segregated Bathrooms (Women’s Center Library)
  Bryan Burgess

2:45 to 4:15
Film and Talk Back (McCune Conference Room)

• Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
  Susan Stryker

4:30 to 6:30
Welcoming Plenary (McCune Conference Room)

• Welcome & Introductions
  Dick Hebdige, Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
  Conference Committee
  
• Panel: “Art, Activism and Academe: Necessary Conversations and Crosspollinations”
  Ryka Aoki de la Cruz
  Gayatri Gopinath
  Yoseñio Lewis

6:30 to 7:30
Welcome Reception & Digital Art Show Opening (McCune Conference Room)

8:30 to 10:00
Performance (MultiCultural Center Theater)

• B4T
  Imani Henry

Saturday, February 12

8:30 to 10:30
Coffee and Bagels (HSSB 6th Floor – outside of McCune Conference Room)

8:30 to 10:30
Registration (HSSB 6th Floor – outside of McCune Conference Room)

9:00 to 10:30
Concurrent Sessions

• Panel: Violence, Visibility, and Community Responses
  Tomasz Basiuk: The Polish Poster Campaign: Visibility, Solidarity, and a Politics of Anger
  Toby Beauchamp: Violence Made Visible: Mourning & Memorial in Transgender Political Organizing
  Aeyal Gross: Queer Outlaw Meet The Law – The Courts of the Borderlands
  Lori Saffin: Structuring Hate, Erasing Lives: Queers of Color, Hate Crimes, and the Law
  
• Panel: History, Culture, Nation
  Sumiko Braun: Our Kind of Queer: Examining how our expectations alter the very reality of the Hawai’ian people
  Russell Cambron: Gender and Nationality in the Aftermath of September 11
  Deborah Cane: Queering the Road: Women Hoboes, Female to Male Transsexuality and the Great Depression
  Rebecca Chapman: A Deed Without a Name: Invocation, Equivocation, and the Female Masculinity of Macbeth’s Weird Sisters
  
• Workshop: Harness Your Desire
  Carrie Gray

10:00 to 2:00
Body Painting

• Rachel Bachman

10:45 to 12:30
Plenary

• Panel: “Politics, Art, and Performance”
  Judith Halberstam
  Thea Hillman
  Imani Henry

12:30 to 2:00
Short Film/Video Show Opening (McCune Conference Room)
Opening Remarks: Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Lunch (On your own)

2:00 to 3:30
Concurrent Sessions

• Panel: Sissies, Lipstick, and Foreign Territory: Femmes Across the Faultlines
  Karl Bryant
  Elizabeth Currans: My Femme Manifesto: A Letter to a Baby Dyke
  Ednie Kaeh Garrison: Non-Feminine Femme; Or, How Can a Femme Register as Androgynous Masculine on a Personality Test?
  Alyssa Harad: Dyke Envy Part 1: Not My Mamma’s Femme
  
• Experiential Genderqueer Narratives
  Loree Erickson: Presenting Femmegimp
  Sarah Hunt: Narratives of Decolonization: Visualizing Transformative Identities
  Susan McCully and Martha Marinara: Lesbian Femme Butch Desire and Biker Babe Mythos
  
• Discussion: Filmmakers’ Roundtable
  Giovanna Chesler
  Jessica Lawless
  Rigo Maldonaldo
  Elizabeth Stark
  
• Workshop: Queers on Wheels (TBD)
  Eva Sweeney

3:45 to 5:30
Performance Plenary (MultiCultural Center Theater)

• “Debutante Balls”
  Turner Schofield
  Introduction: Jess O’Keefe
  
• Spoken Word, Dance and Performances
  Thea Hillman
  Yoseñio Lewis
  Celestina Pearl
  Sean Dorsey
  Lisa Gillinger
  

8:30 to 11:00 (doors open at 7:30 / 21+ / $3-$7 sliding scale entrance)
Drag Cabaret Night (Hades Nightclub, downtown Santa Barbara)

Sunday, February 13

8:30 to 10:30
Coffee and Bagels (HSSB 6th Floor – outside of McCune Conference Room)

9:00 to 10:30
Concurrent Sessions

• Panel: Reading Gender: Artistic Representations
  David Benin: Bodily Perception: Experimental Cinema and the Condition of Virtual Ability
  Nicole Eschen: Drag Queen, Fairy, Femme and Stanley: Queer Genders in Belle Reprieve
  Jordy Jones: Trans-ing the Self-Portrait: Gender Ambiguity in 20th Century Autobiographic Photography
  Trish Salah: Writing in “the in-between”: a performative lecture with poetry
  
• Panel: Performance and Politics
  Matt Richardson: Going to Make the Man: Blackface Minstrelsy and Queer Gender Performance
  Frank Leon Roberts: “What Kind of Cunt Do You Really Want To Be?” Gender, Performance and Queer World-Making in New York City Black and Latino Ballroom House Culture
  Katrin Greim: Femme Out Loud: Queer Femininity and the Politics of (In)Visibility
  
• Workshop: Gender Outlaws
  Colin Kennedy Donovan
  Qwo-Li Driskill

10:45 to 12:15
Concurrent Sessions

• Panel: Femme in Context: Multiple Ways of Being
  Christine De La Rosa-Drinkwater
  Sandy Falby
  Laura Goodspeed
  Moderator: Jessica Eve Humphrey
  
• Panel: Rethinking Compulsory Heterosexuality
  Adriane Friedl: Heterosexual Compulsion in “Compulsory Heterosexuality”
  Denise Goerisch: From the Ugly Duckling to The Swan: The Construction and Performance of Gender on The Swan -
  Robert Heasley and Rachel Goss: Queering Straight Masculinities: Beyond the metrosexual hype
  Yael Sherman: Political Possibilities and the Question of Human Nature: “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”
  
• Workshop: White Supremacy By Any Other Name: Racism As It Affects Queer Communities
  Facilitators: Yoseñio Lewis and JoAnne Reyes Boitel

12:15 to 1:30
Lunch Buffet (McCune Conference Room)

1:30 to 3:00
Concurrent Sessions

• Panel: Gendered Desires
  Susan Cook: Reviewing Masochism: Desire and the Rearticulation of Female Power in Secretary
  Susan Driver: Playful Identities and Passing Pleasures: Erotic dialogues across transitioning selves
  Cathy Hannabach: Recognizing Desire: Queer Femme Bodies in Sadomasochistic Practices
  
• Discussion: Artists’ Roundtable
  Moderator: Turner Schofield
  TBA
  
• Workshop: Battling the Trans-Enough Blues
  Eli R. Green

3:15 to 3:45

• Conference Wrap-Up
  Conference Committee