(Re)making the World: A “How-to” Conference on Feminist, Crip, and Decolonial Worldmaking
by Women’s & Gender Studies Department, SCSU
The 25th Women’s & Gender Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University April 17–18, 2026, Southern Connecticut State University, School of Business Building, 10 Wintergreen Ave., New Haven
We are excited to welcome you to join us for our 25th Women’s & Gender Studies Conference at SCSU featuring our keynote speaker, Dr. Nirmala Erevelles, as well as three of our plenary speakers, Jen Deerinwater, JuPong Lin, and Souksavanh Keovorabouth.
Dr. Erevelles is a professor of social and cultural studies in education at the University of Alabama. Her work focuses on disability studies, critical race theory, transnational feminism, sociology of education, and postcolonial studies to examine how disability intersects with race, class, gender, and sexuality, particularly in relation to students in U.S. public schools and disabled people in transnational contexts.
Jen Deerinwater is a bisexual, Two-Spirit, multiple-disabled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and an award-winning journalist and organizer who covers the myriad of issues their communities face with an intersectional lens.
JuPong Lin is an independent artist, practice-led researcher, writer, and cultural worker who dances with horseshoe crabs and makes ceremony with cranes. Her mission is to hospice the dying colonized world, serving as a death doula through the arts and poetics to create futures of joyful interspecies co-becoming. JuPong was a faculty member in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College for nearly 20 years before the College closed in 2024. She recently completed her doctorate in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England.
Souksavanh Keovorabouth is from the Diné (Navajo) Nation and second-generation Laotian, Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit, and Nadleeh. They come from a lineage of survivors of the Navajo Long Walk, Native Boarding Schools, Relocation, Indian Placement Program, and Urbanization. They call Chinle, Arizona home and work as an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University in Women and Gender Studies & Applied Indigenous Studies.
Please register for the conference by visting: https://inside.southernct.edu/womens-and-gender-studies/conferences/2026.