Thinking Gender 2026: Feminist and Queer Ecologies
Fri 4/17
James West Alumni Center
Join the Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center for a day of graduate student presentations highlighting innovative research at the intersections of gender, sexuality, environment, and justice.
The conference will feature keynote speaker Cutcha Risling Baldy (Cal Poly Humboldt; NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute), whose work centers Indigenous feminisms, land relations, and food sovereignty.
“Feminist and Queer Ecologies,” explores how environments and ecologies are shaped, understood, and contested through relations of sex, gender, and sexuality. The theme also considers how feminist and queer theorists, artists, and organizers have drawn on ecological processes and environmental knowledge to build new insights, movements, and practices.