Thinking Gender

Thinking Gender is an annual public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. CSW|Streisand Center has been hosting Thinking Gender since 1991.

Past Thinking Gender Conferences

Thinking Gender 2024 Keynote

Thinking Gender 2024

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Photo of the Thinking Gender 2019 Keynote Panel

A group of women sitting at a roundtable in a big conference room.

A group of women posing for a photo with a table with assortments of food in front.

5 people posing for a photo.

A panelist talking with a mic in their hand while other panelists look at them.

A group of people sitting at a roundtable with papers on it.

A person giving a keynote speech at the podium with a slideshow on the projector beside them.

Below are programs from past Thinking Gender Conferences:

2026 36th Annual Conference program – “Feminist and Queer Ecologies”
2025 35th Annual Conference program – “Gendered Labors & Transnational Solidarities”
2024 34th Annual Conference program – “Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias”
2023 33rd Annual Conference program – “Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility”
2022 32nd Annual Conference program – “Transgender Studies at the Intersections”
2021 31st Annual Conference program – “Care, Mutual Aid, and Reproductive Labor in a Time of Crisis”
2020 30th Annual Conference program – “Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice”
2019 29th Annual Conference program – “Feminists Confronting the Carceral State”
2018 28th Annual Conference program – “Pre-Existing Conditions”
2017 27th Annual Conference program – “Imagining Reparations”
2016 26th Annual Conference program
2015 25th Annual Conference program
2014 24th Annual Conference program
2013 23rd Annual Conference program
2012 22nd Annual Conference program
2011 21st Annual Conference program
2010 20th Annual Conference program
2009 19th Annual Conference program
2008 18th Annual Conference program
2007 17th Annual Conference program
2006 16th Annual Conference program
2005 15th Annual Conference program
2004 14th Annual Conference program
2003 13th Annual Conference program
2002 12th Annual Conference program
2001 11th Annual Conference program
2000 10th Annual Conference program
1999 9th Annual Conference program
1998 8th Annual Conference program
1997 7th Annual Conference program
1996 6th Annual Conference program
1995 5th Annual Conference program
1994 4th Annual Conference program
1993 3rd Annual Conference program
1992 2nd Annual Conference program
1991 1st Annual Conference program

Thinking Gender Blog Posts

21 UCLA Students gather with Professor Beth Richie in a UCLA classroom.

What About Them: Gender-Based Violence and Prison Abolition

August 12, 2019

Thinking Gender 2020: Call for Proposals

August 9, 2019

Thinking Gender: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State, with reflection and gratitude

April 2, 2019