SESSION I: QUEER ALLEGIANCES AND SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP

• Beth Bouloukos, PhD Student in Romance Studies, Cornell University, "Queer Mexican National Identity: Trans Rhetoric in Carmen Boullosa's Duerme."
• Shantala Thompson, M.A. Student in Women's Studies, and Megan Rolfe, M.A. Student in Women's Studies/PhD Student in Sociology, University at Albany, "Queering Njinga: Unraveling Imposed Definitions of Gender and Sexuality."
• Colleen Farrell, Women's and Gender Studies Major, Williams College, "The Limits of a Patchwork America: Representing Gay Identities in the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt, 1987-1993."
• Cameron Greensmith, University of Toronto graduate and Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network, "Queer Subjectivities, Pride Toronto, and the Processes of Othering."

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SESSION II: STAGING QUEER SUBJECTIVITIES

• Anita Halasz, SUNY Stony Brook, "(Mis)remembering the Butch: A Return to Butch-Femme Culture."
• Charlotte Loftus, Beloit College graduate, "Queering Feminine Performance: Neo-Burlesque, Female/Female Drag, and Queer Spaces."
• Brendan McHugh, Junior at San Francisco State University, "'Just a Small Town Boy': Queering the Quarterback, Whitening the Other, Re-Othering the Other."
• Ayana Weekley, Women and Gender Studies, SUNY Brockport, "Queering Theories of Black Female Heterosexuality."

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SESSION III: DECOLONIZING BODIES: HEALING AND RECLAIMING SELF

• Lucia Vidable, Women's Studies Major, African American Studies Minor, and Pre-Med, Emory University, "Heterosexualizing the Body: The Medicalization of the Intersex Body as a Mode for Materialization."
• Annette Brömdal, PhD Candidate in Women's Studies and Gender Research, Monash University, "Queering Intersex in Sport: The Gender and Sex Controversy Surrounding the 'Golden Girl' Caster Semenya."
• Kyle Jason Cortis, M.A. Student in Women's Studies, University at Albany, "Gender as Pathology: The Colonization of Transgender Bodies."
• Claire Schwartz, Senior at Williams College, "The Radical Politics of Breast Cancer Subjectivities (or Something Like a Red Flag for June Jordan)."

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SESSION IV: BLURRED VISIONS: EMERGING REALMS OF QUEERNESS IN FILM

• Liz Reilly, M.A. Student in English, Rutgers University, "'Whether You Like it or Not': Drag on Film in the 21st Century."
• Marik Xavier-Brier, M.A. Candidate in Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University, and Jennifer Bridger, Georgia State University graduate, "Virtually Real, or Really Virtual?  A Glimpse into the Queer Spaces of Second Life." (Running time: 15 minutes)
• Jules Rosskam, Independent Filmmaker, "against a trans narrative." (Running time: 61 minutes - More Info)