Date: Saturday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 061: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Womxn's Bodies as Sites of Statist Violence: A Critique of Imperialist, Heteropatriarchal Politics
Room: Salon 7

Sponsor: 

Organizers: Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary
Meghna Bhat, Independent Scholar and Consultant

Presider/Discussant: Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary

Description: 

The critical dialogue session invites researchers and practitioners to submit papers that discuss the mechanism through which state and institutions of the state seek to control and oppress bodies that are perceived feminine. The panel particularly invites dialogue that is anti-racist, anti-hetero-cis-patriarchal, intersectional, decolonial and orients the field of gender away from normative ways of knowing.

Papers:

“From Violence to Victory: How Young Black People with Diverse Sexual Identities Experience Religion and Spirituality,” Sandra Lynn Barnes, Brown University

“Intersecting Liminalities: Controlling Pregnant Immigrant Bodies,” Zoë Chaetana Miller-Vedam, University of California, Irvine

“One Life: The Impact of China’s One Child Policy on Girls and Women in Society Today,” Jenny Athena Wong, Mothers Lead

“Resisting Across Borders: Iranian Diaspora Activists’ Struggles in Transnational Contexts,” Fateme Ejaredar, University of Calgary

“The Problem of Mononormativity: Disrupting Colonial and Imperial Conceptions of Family in the Canadian Government’s Pursuit of Gender Justice,” Pedrom Nasiri, University of Calgary

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