Schedule

Experiences In Femininity

Julia Mulloy, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Grace Spaulding, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Ponderosa Room C

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Empowerment or Possession: The Roles of Women in Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies

Heidi Kerr, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Ponderosa Room C

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

The Queen of Rockabilly: Wanda LaVonne Jackson

Kalli N. Bue, University of Central Oklahoma

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

“She Insists Her Mind is Balanced”: Habeas Corpus, Psychiatric Confinement, and the Legal Resistance of Immigrant Women Caroline Bauer and Anna Sultz, 1868-1906.

Andy L. Knopik, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room D

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

The Misalignment of the Government, Medical Field, and Public Opinion on Gender Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth

Izzy Lewis, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room D

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Infantilization, Toxic Masculinity, and Rest Cure: A Literary Analysis of Mental Health Throughout Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Abigail F. Trantham, University of Nebraska at Kearney

Ponderosa Room D

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Heaven Is Inside You

Kate B. Glass, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ponderosa Room D

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Stitched Restistance: Queer Craftivism Through a Crochet Pride Flag Afghan

Angela G. Garrett, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room A

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Beyond the Canon: Queer Musicians and the Evolution of Inclusive Pedagogy

Parker Haller, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room A

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Sun: A Special Look into the Writing of a Transgender Children's Book

Lilliane J. Roberts, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room A

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

“What We Can Learn About the Power of Collective Memory from Rigoberta Menchú”

Mildred Ciprian, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room B

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

What Counted as Environmentalism? Gender, Power, and Conservation in the United States

Aidan E. Ross, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room B

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

The Role of Women in the Revolution

Azaria Brown, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room B

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Willa Cather in 1970-90s Women’s and LGBT Print Culture: Exploring Feminist and Queer Representations in Alice Munroe’s “Dulse”, Adrienne Rich’s “For Julia In Nebraska”, and Majorie Pyrse’s “Into the Cañon.”

Jesse Nguyen

Ponderosa Room B

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

Textile Heirlooms; Kinship Focus

Avril Martin, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room C

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

The National Alliance of Intimate Violence: Experiences of Tyranny and Domestic Violence impacting Middle Eastern and North African Women in the United States

SueRae O'Bleness, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room A

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

"Was there no escape?": Katherine Mansfield and the Domestic Gothic

Jamie D. Ripperda, University of Nebraska at Kearney

Ponderosa Room A

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Gambling Harm Beyond the Gambler: A Pilot Study of Affected Others in the United States

Rowland Edet, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room A

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Fertile Land: European Sexual Conquest and Contemporary Native American Women’s Experiences.

Sarah G. Wilson, The University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room B

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Our Bodies were not theirs: The Sterilization of Mexican-American women in California.

Emily Martinez, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room B

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Socio-cultural Influence and Patriarchal Control: Examining Religious and Historical Aspects of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in 21st Century Egyptian Society

Chloe M. Gotes, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room B

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

The False Dichotomy between “Rape Victim” and “Rape Survivor”

Yassmin Abdul-Malik, Webster University

Ponderosa Room C

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Stolen Girlhoods and Reclaimed Narratives: Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Feminist Testimony in A Woman and Girl, Woman, Other

Katherine E. Pyle, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room C

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Uncertainty: Voter's Remorse Among Latinos in American Politics

Diana A. Aguinaga, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room C

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Epistemic Injustice, Intersectional complexities, and International Students in America

Mantrana Upadhyay, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room C

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Sexual Health Education, Attitudes, Experiences, and STI Testing Rates of University of Central Oklahoma Students

Princeton Niblack, University of Central Oklahoma
Erik Huneke, University of Central Oklahoma
Lindsey B. Churchill, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room D

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

The “Condom King,” Community, and Safe Sex: How the AIDS Epidemic Changed Sex Education

Olivia Castle, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room D

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Innocent Bodies, Dangerous Knowledge: AIDS Education, Childhood, and Queer Displacement in U.S. Popular Culture

Darian A. Wilson

Ponderosa Room D

11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

Ann Petry and the Politics and Craft of Interior Monologue

Ella B. McDowall

Ponderosa Room A

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Subverting Myths: Eve as Golem

Lila Waterfield, University of Nebraska at Kearney

Ponderosa Room A

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Feminist Undercurrents in Gwen Harwood’s “A Game of Chess” and Louise Glück’s “Mock Orange”

Persephony L. Tobin, University of Nebraska, Kearney

Ponderosa Room A

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

The Low Retention of Transgender Students in STEM

Seth V. Clayton, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room B

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Trans Homelessness and Personal Narrative: An Exploration of the Causes of Homelessness and Lack of Healthcare within the Transgender Community

Luke Wilson, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room B

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Bound by history: power, pain, and pleasure through the ages

Marrs J. Rutz

Ponderosa Room B

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Enemy of a Nation: Intersectional Theories of Oppression Within Trans-Exclusionary Lesbian Feminisms

Ashley N. Wood, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room B

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Belly Dance in Nebraska: Identity, Social Acceptance, and Perseverance

Alex R. Mohr, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room C

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

The Limits of (Trans) Joy (?)

Saturn S. Rage, University of Kansas

Ponderosa Room C

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tackling Period Poverty: Continuing a Legacy of Empowerment

Olivia C. Sheldon, University of Nebraska, Kearney

Ponderosa Room C

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Transforming Theory into Action: Feminist Frameworks in Reproductive Justice Organizing

Ella Mitchell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ponderosa Room C

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

“Get Thee Behind Me, [Mrs.] Satan!”: Spiritualism, Radical Feminist Theology, Race, and Comstockery, 1830-1890

Cecily Lawton, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room D

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Digital Disciples: The Convergence of American Christian Fundamentalism and Incel Ideology

Kama G. Wyatt, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room D

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Human Rights, A Spectacle; A Rhetorical Analysis of YouTube Debates

Oliver Engelke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ponderosa Room D

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

The Socialization of Sass: Gender and Feminist Theory in Junie B. Junes

Trinity Weers

Ponderosa Room B

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

The Evolution of Motherhood in African Feminist Literature

Cassie M. Provost, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Ponderosa Room B

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Girlhood Isn’t Genuine Anymore

Katelyn J. Nieman, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Ponderosa Room B

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Maleness as Murder in Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Zachary A. Hickham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ponderosa Room C

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Protection? This is Extermination: Roles of Resistance, Intersectionality, and Joy within the X-Men

Pallas C. Splattstoesser, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Ponderosa Room C

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Women by Men, for Men - The Ramifications of Gender Inequity in the Game Design Industry

Simone Hill, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room C

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Ozzie and Harriet: How Stone Butch Blues Queers and Re-Queers the Heterosexual Couple

Lilliane J. Roberts, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Ponderosa Room D

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Before It Was Kink, It Was Community: A Short History of Lesbian Sadomasochism

Tylea S. Johnson, The Women's Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student Center at the University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room D

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

A Pantheon of Pleasure: Orisha Revival and the Politics of Black Women’s Sexuality in Hip-Hop

Elle Prather, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room D

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM

Degradation on Demand: Pornography and Gendered Intimacy in the Digital Age

Za'Kenzie T. Vaughn, University of Central Oklahoma

Ponderosa Room D

3:35 PM - 4:25 PM