Schedule

Friday June 2nd 2023

  • 10:00 - 10:10am
    Opening Remarks
    Q-Scholars Respondents/Speakers

    Anouska Saraf

    Austin Nguyen

  • 10:10 - 10:30am
    LGBTQ CRC: QTBIPOC Student Experiences Project
    Panelists

    Taylor Vassar

    Carina Fuller

  • 10:30 - 11:30am
    Panel 1: Queer & Trans @ UCLA
    Panelists

    Uncovering the Impact of Math Anxiety on Gender Queer Students at UCLA

    MJ Larios

    Experiences of Transmasculine and Autistic UCLA Students

    Vinita Saxena

    You See (UC) Lavender: Assessing Sexual Violence and Institutional Betrayal Among Sexual and Gender Minority Students at UCLA

    Sean Sugai

    Q-Scholars Respondents/Speakers

    Augustine Udukumbura

  • 11:30 - 12:30pm
    Panel 2: Representational Fields & Expression
    Panelists

    Psychosexual Horror as Ballerina Madonnas and Whores: Analyzing Black Swan’s Sexual Politics

    Charlie Stetson

    Transgender Representation and Political Climate: 10 Years of Cinema and Television

    Wythenia Cruz & Nicolette Pirghibi

    Navigating Grammatical Gender in Hebrew

    Eden Moyal

    Q-Scholars Respondents/Speakers

    Christine Kim

  • 12:30 - 12:45pm
    Lunch Break/Social
  • 12:45 - 1:30pm
    Graduate Student Panel
    Panelists

    Shivani Davé

    Dena Gohari

    Max Pereyra

    Q-Scholars Respondents/Speakers

    Justine Sargent

  • 1:30 - 2:30pm
    Panel 3: Queer Literature & Analysis
    Panelists

    Queer Modernities: Uncovering the Hated-Homosexual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room

    Diego Mesa

    Untold Histories: An Analysis of the Private Writing of Queer Individuals

    Christopher Lewis Smith

    “All these long years”: Queer Temporality in the Works of Sarah Orne Jewett and Willa Cather

    Emma Horio

    Q-Scholars Respondents/Speakers

    Austin Nguyen

  • 2:30 - 3:30pm
    Panel 4: Trans Justice & Care
    Panelists

    Transgender and Gender Diverse Healthcare

    Austin McBride

    Transing Environmental Justice

    Roger Gawne

    TransFigurations: Queer Adjacency to Nature

    Kristopher Boris

    Q-Scholars Respondents/Speakers

    Anouska Saraf

  • 3:30 - 4:00pm
    Closing Remarks/Social
    Q-Scholars Respondents/Speakers