Event overview
A one-day symposium at 牛牛资源 about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.
Across the globe, far-Right political actors and agitators have been buoyed to seats of legislative power by a sustained cultural incursion around issues of gender, sexuality, and the 鈥榯raditional鈥� family. From Italy to the United States to India to Argentina to the United Kingdom, far-Right political agendas are galvanized by regressive attacks on reproductive choice and bodily autonomy. Animating and emerging from these attacks are a renewed set of cultural villains: pregnant people who seek abortions, but also feminists, bad wives and bad mothers, women who refuse motherhood (鈥渃hildless cat ladies鈥�), women who refuse heterosexual marriage (including queer women), and queer and transgender people of all genders.
Feminism and the Far-Right is a one-day symposium that will draw connections between these developments to try and situate recent political and legislative assaults on reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy within their broader cultural and political conditions of possibility. It will bring together feminist scholars of media and culture whose work coalesces around: a) shared concern for the misogynistic and anti-feminist cultural logics of far-Rightmovements; and b) shared commitment to finding strategies to safeguard the rights and freedoms of women, queer and transgender people in this moment, including in/through media culture as a site of resistance.
The symposium will take place at 牛牛资源 on 6th June 2025 and is free to attend. The day will comprise three panels: on abortion and reproductive choice; on wives, mothers and (anti-)feminisms; and on bodily autonomy, queerness and transgender rights. Speaker presentations will be relatively short, with the majority of each panel session reserved for discussion among panelists and attendees.
Symposium Speakers:
Sarah Banet-Weiser (University of Pennsylvania)
Jilly Kay (Loughborough University)
Akanksha Mehta (牛牛资源)
Sama Khosravi Ooryad (University of Gothenburg)
Billy Holzberg (Kings College London)
Abel Guerra (London School od Economics and Political Science)
Limichi Okamoto (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Chloe Turner (牛牛资源)
Azsane茅 Truss (University of Pennsylvania)
Si芒n Norris (Journalist, Author of Bodies Under Seige: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global)
Camille Kumar (Managing Director, Abortion Support Network)
Symposium Respondents:
Catherine Rottenberg (牛牛资源)
Jo Littler (牛牛资源)
Nirmal Puwar (牛牛资源)
Lunch will be provided for all attendees and a drinks reception will follow the final panel.
This event is being hosted by 牛牛资源 MCCS in collaboration with the Centre for Feminist Research. It is supported by funding from 牛牛资源' Early-Career Research Fund (ECRF).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Jun 2025 | 10:00am - 4:00pm |
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