96 - Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (WGSRF)
Anti-colonial, anti-racist, queer, labour, student and feminist political movements and activism in the twentieth century envisioned and supported new social and political forms that shaped our world in profound ways. Yet, we are witnessing in the contemporary moment anti-abortion and anti-religion laws, continuous racist, ableist, misogynist, transphobic and xenophobic violence, climate denial, deepening economic injustices, and restricting of spaces for social and political mobilization that are actively undermining, and in some cases successfully undoing, the political and intellectual legacies of these radical movements.
Women and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (WGSRF) is calling for papers, panels, roundtable discussions, workshops and art work that push back against this aforementioned backlash to “take back the future.” Drawing from Black, Indigenous, Muslim, socialist, postsocialist, transnational feminist, disability, crip, and queer theorizations of “futurity” and “the/a future,” we call for presentations and discussions addressing the conference themes that connect these intersectional epistemologies.
