(Re)making the World: A “How-To” Conference on Feminist, Crip, and Decolonial Worldmaking

25th Women’s & Gender Studies Conference
April 17–18, 2026

The 2026 SCSU Women’s & Gender Studies Conference invites communities to gather for a feminist, crip, and decolonial practice of refusal, survival, and worldmaking.

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Past Conferences

• 2024: "Continuities, Ruptures, Resurgences: Still in Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens"
• 2021: "Gender, Race, Community, & Conflict: Pursuing Peace and Justice"
• 2020: "Gender, Race, Community, & Conflict: Pursuing Peace and Justice" (Canceled)
• 2016: "#FeministIn(ter)ventions: Women, Community, Technology"
• 2014: "Ecology, Spirituality, Sustainability: Feminist and Indigenous Interventions"
• 2012: "Work and Labor: At Home, At Work, Around the Globe
• 2010: "Women & Girls of Color: History, Heritage, Heterogeneity"
• 2008: "Girls' Culture & Girls' Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood"
• 2007: "The Seventeenth Annual Women's Studies Conference"
• 2006: "Women's Health: Colonized, Resisted, Reclaimed"
• 2005: "Asian and Pacific Women: Indigenous and Diasporic"
• 2004: "Women, Power and Politics"
• 2003: "Women, War and Peace"
• 2002: "Ecofeminist Ethics & Activism: Re-Envisioning the Future"
• 2001: "All Women of Red Nations Weaving Connections"
• 2000: "Women of African Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora"
• 1999: "Global Justice/Women's Rights"
• 1998: "Fulfilling Possibilities: Women & Girls with Disabilities"
• 1997: "Latina Visions for Transforming the Americas"
• 1996: "Change the Politics: Women Make the Difference"
• 1995: "The Fate of Feminism: Is there a Next Generation?"
• 1994: "Women's Voices/ Women's Power: Theory, Action, Transformation"
• 1993: "Women Building Community: Crossing the Boundaries of Race, Religion, Class, Gender..."
• 1992: "Celebrating Our Diversity: Women Revisioning the Future"
• 1991: "Women's Studies in the 1990s: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?"