Sponsors

Deans Office, CLAS

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
PSU Educational Activities Speakers Board
Department of Child and Family Studies
Queer Resource Center
Department of Sociology
Thank Yous
Ernesto Martinez
Moderators
Sally Eck
Kesheena Doctor
Marlene Howell
Isabel Jaen-Portillo
Sri Nair
Vicki Reitenauer
Sally McWilliams
WGSS Staff
Margaret Raines
Kari Smit
Day of Volunteers
Carrie Fuentes
Eric Dauenhauer
Miriam Gonzales
Colloquium Planning Committee
Genevieve LeMay
Patricia Romero
Veronica Valenzuela
Colloquium Logo Design
Patricia Romero

Colloquium Session Schedule

Welcome
Room 238

9:00-9:15

Session 1

9:20-11:20

Session 1a
"Fat on Campus"
(Panel)
Room 296

Session 1b
"Passion, Erudition & Muscle, a cocktail for Spanish
Proto Feminism and the Liberation of Women"
(Panel)
Room 298

Session 1c
"Feminist History in the Age of Social Media Activism
and the Millennial Generation"
(WGSS Faculty Panel)
Room 236
Lunch
Room 238

11:30-1:00

Introduction
Sally McWilliams, Chair,
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Room 238

12:00-12:05

Greetings from the Dean

Karen A. Marrongelle, Dean,
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Room 238

12:05-12:10

"On the Queer Practice and

Racial Politics of Intelligibility"
Keynote Talk

Professor Ernesto Martnez

Keynote Talk Highlights:
How do queers of color develop reliable knowledge
about their lives despite being subject to the
ideological violence of racist and homophobic
societies?
What importance do we attribute to the strategies
queer people of color employ to resist such
violence and to negotiate levels of intelligibility,
and what are the implications of such
interventions for social theory?

Professor Ernesto Martnez

Keynote Speaker
Ernesto Javier Martnez is Associate Professor of Womens and
Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon.
He specializes in comparative ethnic literature, queer studies,
Latina/o literature and culture, and literary theory. He earned a
B.A. in English with Honors from Stanford University in 1998,
and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Cornell University in
2005.
For over 10 years, he served as a coordinating team member for
the Future of Minority Studies (FMS) research project. He is
currently the Interim Co-Chair of the Association for Jotera Arts,
Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS).

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Ernesto Martnez
On the Queer Practice and Racial Politics of
Intelligibility
Room 238

12:10-1:00

Session 2

1:05-2:30

Session 2a: Creative Feminism

Taking Up Space:
a poem
Monique Ashwill
Traversing Ravines
Alexandra Shall

His primary research is theoretically oriented towards questions of

knowledge acquisition and knowledge production in oppressive
contexts. He is especially interested in the role minority cultural
production can play in helping us to understand subjugated ways
of thinking and marginalized ways of being, particularly because
these have been consideredwithin Western paradigms of
knowledge productionillegitimate starting points for knowing.

My Mountains, My Memories, My Modes of Production:

Capitalism and Gender Performance on the Frontier of a
Folk Tradition
Kimberly Fanshier

His work has appeared in several journals, including the PMLA,

Signs, and Aztln. He has also co-edited two books: Gay Latino
Studies: A Critical Reader (Duke UP, 2011), which won the
Lambda literary award for best LGBT anthology, and The Truly
Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education,
which was published last year by Palgrave. His single-authored
bookOn Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of
Intelligibilitywas published by Stanford University Press in
2012, and it happens to be the topic of his talk today.

When does the Personal become Political?

Sierra Prior

Room 296

Session 2b: Crafting Politics of the Personal

Zines For You and Me

Kesheena Doctor
Fear of White Folks
Tina Semko

Session 2b: Crafting Politics of the Personal (Cont.)

Session 3a: Culture & Family (Cont.)

Shifting Communities: Conocimiento and the Process

of Resubjectification
Miriam Gonzalez

From One Revolutionary to Another Revolutionary:

Creating Beloved Community and Sacred Space in
Classroom
Hannah Greenberg

Room 298

Session 2c: Bodies as Pleasure, Bodies as Objects

Toward a Non-Visual Pornography. Keywords:
disability, sexuality, blindness, pornography.
Sabine Rear
The Body: Conceptualizing Abortion in Contemporary
Ireland
Sofia Ellis-Curry
Constructing the Self with a Scalpel: An Inquiry into
Plastic Surgery
Kristen Carangi
Room 236
Session 3

2:40-4:00

Session 3a: Culture & Family

Latinas in Sports
Eryn Wise
Gender, Occupational Prestige, and Work/Family
Conflict
Heather McCabe
Bringing Cultural Competency to PSU
Tia Gomez Zeller

Room 236

Session 3b: Art, Spirituality & Social Justice

Gender Play
Natassia Haas
A Feminist Introspection of Abuse
Shelly Erbe
Where the Wild Garden Grows- A Childrens Field
Guide to the First Foods of the Upper Klamath Basin
Rachel Hess & Joel Adams
Silence is a Wound: Salting Silence for Black-Trans
Liberation
Mariah Leewright
I Feel, Therefore I Can Be Free: A Black Poetic
Roadmap for Justice
Tessara Dudley
Room 298

Session 3c
Zine Workshop
Kesheena Doctor
Room 296
Closing Reception
Room 238

4:00-4:30