No Limits 2026 - Remarkable Women: Resilient & Revolutionary

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Once Upon a Refusal — Gender and Narrative Escape

This panel examines how literary and cultural texts imagine refusal as a mode of survival and self-definition. Across historical and contemporary works, presenters analyze narrative strategies that unsettle gendered expectations around choice, agency, and femininity.

Who Gets to Know? — Sex Education, Public Health, and Power

This panel focuses on the politics of sexual knowledge, education, and public health. Presenters examine how access to information is shaped by morality, stigma, and power across generations.

Trauma, Testimony, and Meaning-Making

This panel highlights how harm is named, interpreted, and contested within feminist discourse. Presenters examine trauma, sexual violence, and femininity through literary analysis and survivor-centered frameworks.

Colonialism, Reproduction, and Sexual Governance

This panel explores how colonial and imperial power operates through sexual control, reproductive regulation, and bodily governance. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, presenters analyze how race, religion, and empire shape experience.

Reevaluating Safe Space — Domestic Space, Intimate Terror, and Escape

Centering the home, in various capacities, as a site of constraint, violence, and political affect, this panel explores domestic space across literature and global contexts. The papers examine how intimacy becomes a terrain of fear, coercion, and longing for escape.

Diagnosed, Detained, Disbelieved

Examining various institutions, this panel addresses how gendered bodies are regulated through diagnosis, confinement, and policy. The papers analyze historical and contemporary cases of institutional authority over health, sanity, and legitimacy.

Things That Shape Us — Material Culture and Feminine Meaning

This panel considers how objects, practices, and embodied aesthetics produce and transmit gendered meaning. From textiles to theatrical representation, presenters examine how material culture encodes power, intimacy, and identity.

Remembering Otherwise — Gender, Environment, and the Politics of Memory

Focusing on collective memory, environmental politics, and historical narration, this panel explores how gender shapes what societies remember—and what they forget. The papers investigate memory as a political tool that structures environmentalism, revolution, and resistance.

Sex and Cultural Meanings

This panel explores sexuality as a site of historical memory, cultural formation, and political struggle. The papers trace how pleasure, stigma, and intimacy shape queer and feminist communities over time.

Gender in Popular Culture

This panel analyzes representations of violence and gender panic across film, comics, and popular culture. Presenters examine how media constructs destructive gender norms and frames resistance, fear, and joy.

Feminism in Practice, Play, and Protest

This panel explores how feminist theory circulates beyond the academy into activism, literature, and popular culture. The papers examine theory-in-action across organizing, children’s media, and speculative fiction.

Teaching While Treading Water — WGSS Pedagogy on Precarious Ground

This panel addresses the realities of teaching Women’s and Gender Studies amid institutional precarity. Presenters reflect on place, resistance, and survival within under-resourced departments. Together, this discussion offers a grounded account of pedagogy as both labor and activism.

Morality and Regulation

This panel highlights how religion, ideology, and moral panic shape gendered regulation. Presenters examine theological discourse, digital radicalization, and spectacle as tools of control.

Bodies Out Loud — Performance and Gendered Visibility

Centering embodied performance and public visibility, this panel examines how gender is lived and negotiated in marginal spaces. From dance to grassroots advocacy, presenters analyze how bodies claim space and meaning.

Trans, Queer, and Disabled Life in Social Systems

Focusing on structural abandonment, this panel examines how trans, queer, and disabled people navigate institutions that fail to sustain them. Presenters address education, housing, healthcare, and stigma through lived experience and systemic critique.

Making Queer Worlds — Art, Gender, and Cultural Survival

This panel centers queer worldmaking through creative production, teaching, and cultural preservation. The presenters explore documentary film, craftivism, and pedagogy as survival strategies in hostile environments.