Tufts Women's Center Symposium: BODY LANGUAGE

The 15th Annual Tufts’ Women’s Center Symposium—Body Language: Rewriting the Gendered Body through Embodied Knowledge, Accessibility, and Fat Resistance 

The Tufts University Women’s Center is pleased to present the 15th annual Women’s Center Symposium—Body Language: Rewriting the Gendered Body through Embodied Knowledge, Accessibility, and Fat Resistance— an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to examining how gendered bodies are shaped, regulated, celebrated, and contested across social, cultural, medical, and political landscapes. Bringing together artists, scholars, activists, and students, from Tufts and beyond, this symposium foregrounds embodied knowledge, lived experiences, and somatic storytelling of those whose bodies are bound within dominant narratives.

This year, we intends to explore the forces that inform how we come to exist and how we resist in our bodies. Through panels, workshops, art, performance, and roundtable discussions, the 15th annual symposium will encourage participants to explore themes surrounding accessibility and disability justice, fat embodiment and liberation, bodily autonomy through a gender-diverse lens, and the ways race, gender, class, and coloniality inform the ways we live in our bodies.

Join us this April to build community, gather bodies in inclusive spaces, foster critical discourse that challenges normative approaches to the “ideal” body. Together, we hope to find new stories to tell ourselves and envision inclusive, unbound futures for us all.

April 10th, 5.00PM to 8.00PM

• Opening remarks follwed by a performance by Dorian Wood
• Hors d'oeuvres and networking

April 11th, 10.00AM to 7.00PM

This is a full day event, with breakfast, lunch, and a community dinner provided by us to participants free of charge. The line up for speakers include,

• Dr. Caleb Luna, Artist and Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
• Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd, Director of Contextual Education at the Boston University School of Theology
• Talya Miller, Midwest-based Artist and Community Worker

For any additional question and/or concerns, please reach out to us at [email protected].

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