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Third Annual Gender Justice Conference
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We intentionally plan to host this conference at the end of Women's History Month and just before the start of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the hopes of unifying our office's goals of addressing gender-based oppression and centering joy and liberation for all. In 2021, the First Annual Gender Justice Conference was thematically organized around the groundbreaking research published in Sexual Citizens by Dr. Jennifer S. Hirsch and Dr. Shamus Khan, which examined the ways that identity and power influenced the sexual lives and vulnerabilities to harm of college students. In 2022, the Second Annual Gender Justice Conference was crafted around concepts of self-authorship and narrative building as social change work and featured a talk from New York Times Bestselling Author Chloe Gong and a keynote from Ericka Hart (pronouns: she/they), a black queer femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker, and award-winning sexuality educator on the concept of radical sex positivity.
This year we would like to build on the learning we embarked on with our previous two conferences and imagine what it means to engage in social change work while continuing to manage the consequences of COVID-19, mounting systemic inequities, and legislative challenges to bodily autonomy. Our hope for the 2023 conference is to continue to examine the ways that all oppressions are intrinsically linked and work to co-create an environment where transformative justice is possible, where everyone's safety is secured, and where everyone finds a space of connection and belonging.