Gender & Sexuality Conference

Join Us at the

11th annual Gender & Sexuality Conference

on Friday, October 18, 2024

Rhatigan Student Center (3rd floor)

on the campus of Wichita State University

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Parking:

For those not affiliated with WSU, please click here for details about visitor parking options and map. We have reserved parking spots in lot 24 (off 17th Street). They will be indicated by orange cones that you will need to move.

For those affiliated with WSU, please follow standard parking protocols to ensure reserved spots are available to our off campus attendees.

2024 Conference Agenda

8:30-9:00 am: Check-in/Registration and light refreshments
9:00-9:30 am: Welcome & Community Organization Showcase
9:45-10:45 am: Session 1
- Breakout A (Beggs Ballroom): Advocating for Affirming Spaces & Services
  - Wooley & Wray: SOUL Family: Creating Protective Factors for LGBTQAI Youth in Kansas DCF Custody
  - Neihaus: Expanding Torres' Rights of the Learner for Trans and Queer in K-12 Classrooms
  - Gutsch: Addressing Care Needs for LGBTQ+ and Trans Patients in Emergency Medicine
- Breakout B (Gridley) Workshop:
  - Graham & Goen: Unveiling the Impact: Anti-Fat Bias and Survivors of Sexual Assault
11:00am-12:00 pm: Session 2
- Breakout A (Beggs Ballroom): Gender Expressions & Relationships
  - Hill, Hertzog, & Simon: Intersections of Age & Gender in Mid- and Later-Life Adult's Perceptions of Online Dating.
  - Villa & Paunetto: "Somos Shockers: Beyond the Stereotype"
  - Lentenbrink, Corral, & Muehlenhard: The proclivity to pretend: Exploring gender differences in faking orgasms among college students
- Breakout B (Gridley) Workshop:
  - Thi: Liberation For One Is Liberation For All: Let’s Talk about Gender, Sexuality, Race, Queerness, and Mental Health
12:00-1:15 pm: Lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:30 pm: Session 3
- Breakout A (Beggs Ballroom): Experiences of Gender & Sexuality in Music & Art
  - Ricker: Life on the Podium and Out of the Closet: LGBTQ+ Collegiate Wind Band Conductor’s Experiences of (In)Dignity in the Workplace
  - Pedersen: Women Composers: An Interdisciplinary Analytical Approach to Gender In and Out of the Concert Hall
  - Gingrich Gaylord: Find your way home (a work of art)
- Breakout B (Gridley) Workshop:
  - Heilman: Navigating Gender and Sexuality-Based Trauma: An Emotional Ecology Approach
2:45-3:45 pm: Session 4
- Breakout A (Beggs Ballroom): Systemic Explorations of Sexual Violence
  - Abeywickrama: Investigating Campus Stakeholder experiences in Addressing Campus Sexual Violence through the Lens of Institutional Courage
  - Gordon: Horrendous Intersections: Rape in a Time of Genocide
- Breakout B (Gridley): Representations of Gender & Sexuality in Literature & Music
  - Jones: Sarah Orne Jewett: Representing the 19th Century Goddess
  - Soneviseth: Brat Existentialism
4:00-5:00 pm: Keynote Presentation
- Dr. Meg Paceley: Health, Activism, Community, and Resistance in an Era of Anti-LGBTQ+ Policy, Legislation, and Rhetoric.
5:00-6:00 pm: Networking Reception

2024 Full Confrence Program

2024 Speaker: Dr. Meg Paceley

Dr. Paceley, an Associate Professor at the Univeristy of Connecticut, is a social worker and scholar engaged in research that examines factors in the social environment (e.g. families, communities) and broader systems (e.g. policies, societal rhetoric) and their relationship to queer and trans (QT) youth’s mental and physical health. They aim to identify and evaluate macro strategies (e.g. community organizing & activism, policy advocacy, education) to confront stigma, discrimination, and victimization that contribute to mental and physical health disparities among QT youth.

With the goal of promoting social justice for QT youth, Dr. Paceley embeds their research in principles of anti-oppressive practice and theoretical frameworks such as social-ecological systems theory, minority stress theory, and critical theories. Their scholarship is rooted in more than five years of social work practice experience developing, leading, and evaluating a QT community-based organization; engaging in community organizing and advocacy to promote QT equity; and direct practice experience with QT youth.