THURSDAY, MARCH 20 2025
8:30AM | BREAKFAST at HAYDEN LIBRARY C55
9:00AM | OPENING REMARKS + INTRODUCTIONS at HAYDEN LIBRARY C55
10:00-11:45AM | SESSION ONE: BLACK TRANS FEMINISM AND ABOLITION / FUGITIVE WORLDMAKING at HAYDEN LIBRARY C55
Facilitated by: Dez Brown & Ash Stephens
Presentations by: Kendall Rallins Salmerón, Simone Temple, Taylor Deanna Roberts, & Avik Sarkar
Janak, Jaden. 2022. “(Trans)Gendering Abolition.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 28 (2): 259–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9608175.
Desktop video game: “We Are Here Because of Those That Are Not” (blacktransarchive.com) by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley.
12:00PM | LUNCH at HAYDEN LIBRARY C55
1:00-2:30PM | SESSION TWO: TRANS*-ING THE BLACK EROTIC at HAYDEN LIBRARY C55
Facilitated by: Blu Buchanan, Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth, Aja St. Germaine, & Abraham Weil
Presentations by: K. Anderson, Ian-Khara Ellasante, Rosemary Ewing, & Victor Ultra Omni
Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal. 2020. “(Dis)Owning Exotic: Navigating Race, Intimacy, and Trans Identity.” Sociological Inquiry 90 (2): 249–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12348.
Edidi, Dane Figueroa. 2017. For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss a Mother Fucker out When Snatching an Edge Ain’t Enough : A Choreo Poem. Baltimore, Md.: Dane Edidi.
2:30PM | BREAK
4:00PM | DOORS OPEN at ASU ART MUSEUM GALLERY 6
4:30-6:30PM | PUBLIC PLENARY at ASU ART MUSEUM GALLERY 6
7:30PM | POST-PLENARY DINNER / DRINKS at CASEY MOORE’S OYSTER HOUSE
FRIDAY, MARCH 21 2025
8:30AM | BREAKFAST at HAYDEN LIBRARY C55
9:30-11:00AM | SESSION THREE: TRANS* PEDAGOGIES OF CROSSING at HAYDEN LIBRARY C55
Facilitated by: Tiziana Friedman, Roc Rochon, & Jaz Riley
Presentations by: Rowan Greywolf Moore, Jovon M. Moses, Malcolm Shanks, & Devynn Thurston
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. 2018. “A Note.” M Archive: After the End of the World. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822371878.
Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha. 2018. “Two: Mache Ansanm.” Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders. Duke University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv120qt3w.
Warren, Calvin. 2017. “Calling into Being.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 4 (2): 266–74. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3815057.
11:15AM | SPECULATIVE FIELD-MAPPING WORKSHOP
12:30PM | LUNCH at HAYDEN LIBRARY C55
1:30-3:00PM | SESSION FOUR: BLACK TRANS MATERIALISM & ECONOMIES at HAYDEN LIBRARY C55
Facilitated by: Mary Katreeb & Sarah Keeton
Presentations by: Eshe Sherley, Lore/tta LeMaster, Marlon M. Bailey, & Dahlia Li
Chaudhry, V. Varun. 2020. “On Trans Dissemblance: Or, Why Trans Studies Needs Black Feminism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45 (3): 529–35. https://doi.org/10.1086/706466.
Stewart, Kathleen. 2010. “Afterword: Worlding Refrains.” The Affect Theory Reader: 339-53. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822393047.
3:15-4:30PM | CONCLUDING REMARKS and NEXT STEPS
4:30PM | BREAK
7:00-9:00PM | THEMS. PHX FRUITY POETRY NIGHT + OPEN MIC at the McKINLEY CLUB
9:00PM | GAY BAR HOPPING in the MELROSE DISTRICT
