Amsterdam History

We had an incredible Gender Studies and Sexuality Conference, bringing together educators and experts from around the globe, including Germany, Greece, Romania, UAE, South Africa, UK, Canada, Indonesia, Georgia, Qatar, Estonia, and many more. Participants engaged in insightful conversations, shared their knowledge and experiences, and listened to talks on critical issues and innovative solutions in Gender Studies and Sexuality.

If you were there, you know what a unique opportunity it was to exchange ideas, find inspiration, and gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and solutions in the field. If you missed it, be sure to mark your calendar for the next event and join us to be part of this transformative experience!

Highlighted Speakers

name		Affiliation	Article title
	Prof.Dr. Dennis Francis	University of Glasgow, UK	“When Joy Comes Your Way, You Have to Grab It!” Troubling How Queer Joy Features in The Lives Of LGBT+ School-Attending Youth in South Africa
	Prof.Dr. Souzeina Mushtaq	University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA	Visibility at the Margins: Navigating Cultural Burdens and Belonging Among South Asian Queer Muslim Women
	Prof.Dr. Sara Guerra	University of Aveiro, Portugal	“Good Thing We Survived”: Portuguese Transgender Adults’ Perspectives on Ageing and Future Care Needs
	Dr. Sophie Doucet	Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada	Rewriting the Script: BDSM Negotiation as a Laboratory for Relational Agency and Explicit Consent
	Dr. Emmanuel Rowlands	University of South Africa	Reverse-Hegemonic Masculinity: A New Conceptual Framework in Understanding Masculinities in the Context of Female Agency
	Dr. Efiritha Chauraya	Midlands State University, Zimbabwe	Assessing Public Perceptions on The Proposed 2025 Zimbabwe Abortion Provisions: A Qualitative Study
	Dr. Gabrielle Hunt	Australian Catholic University, Australia	Who Carries Responsibility for Safety? Gender, Care Labour, And Safeguarding
	Dr. Doyoung Lee	Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, South Korea	Eligibility For the Inclusive Future: Design and Impel Equitable and Safe Research Environment
	Dr. Nikki Godden-Rasul	Newcastle University, UK	Abolition Feminism and Gendered Violence: Beyond Transformative Justice
	Dr. Nia Baker	University of South Carolina	Black Women and Sex Work: Gender, Respectability, And Sensual Critiques of Power
	Dr. Alexandra Cheira	CEAUL/ULICES, University of Lisbon, Portugal	Sleeping with the Enemy: Continuities of Sexual Control in Physical and Digital Contexts
	Dr. Justin Siu	Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA	The Effects of Primary School Sex Education in Private and Charter Schools in the Los Angeles Area
	Dr. Jun Shiota	University of Ryukyus, Japan	Cost of Inclusion?: Democratic Representation and Re-gendering the Party System in Iceland
	Dr. Yuko Yoshida	Shiga University, Japan	Credibility of Pain: A Case to Navigate Academic and Judicial Structural Impediments through Testimony and Believing
	Dr. Maria Del Val Bolivar Oñoro	University Of Alcala, Spain	Maternity And Academia in Spain: Results from A Nationwide Survey
	MSC. Guillermo Laguna Murcia	Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Spain	Social Context and Identity: Coping with Minority Stress in Gay and Bisexual Men. A Systematic Review
	MSC. Deniz Engin Küçükali	Yaşar University, Turkey	Negotiating the Gecekondu: Women’s Experiences of Home and Domesticity in Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind
	Ms. Sydney Shevat	University of Tennessee, USA	Beyond Choice: A Comprehensive Review of Reproductive Justice in the US
	Ms. Crinela-Silvia Dragan	University of Bucharest Faculty of Sociology and Social Assistance (PHD), Romania	Policies, Trends, and Practices: Insights into Reproductive Rights in Post-Socialist Romania
	Ms. Apurva Mahajan	CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India	Tracing the Legal Invisibility and Challenges of Same-sex Couples in India
	Ms. Helen Wilds	University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA	Nuclear Concern, Identity, and Vulnerability
	Ms. Mahsa Ghaffari Targhi	University of Alberta, Canada	Navigating Partnered Sex: Women’s Experiences of Faking Orgasm and Exaggerating Pleasure – A Qualitative Study
	Ms. Nivedita Chawda	University of Cambridge, UK	Between Enumeration and Erasure: Gender and Caste Visibility in Indian Census
	Ms. Margherita Gossi	Independent Researcher, Italy	Beyond Legal Neutrality: Feminist Legal Theory, Gender-Based Violence, and Carceral Feminism
	Ms. Hadas Bloemendal	Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel	The Price of Belonging: Towards a Typology of Sexual Abuse Among LGBTQ+ Individuals
	Ms. Shabana Wollin	University of Wisconsin, USA	At the Threshold of Norms: Confronting Clinical Bias and Rethinking Compulsivity in Non-Normative Sexuality
	Ms. Nadia Mazloum	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA	Seeing Ourselves: Bioethical Frameworks for AI Body Visualization in Gender-Affirming Care
	Ms. Polina Lukyantseva	Kyoto University, Japan	Analyzing Abuse in Narratives: A Linguistic Case Study of DV in Cross-National Households in Japan
	Ms. Rita Carvalho	University of Aveiro, Portugal	“I’d Rather Take Some ‘Pills’”: LGBTQIA+ Perspectives on Residential Assisted Living Homes in Portugal
	Mrs. Claire Sentandreu	Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, France	Narcissism, Identity (Ies), And Sexuality(Ies) Among Transfeminine Individuals Engaging In Sex Work
	Mrs. Lahbib Yasmina	El Anis Association For Youth, Algeria	Bridging Gender Gaps in Youth Engagement: Women’s Participation in Cultural and Youth Programs in Algeria – The Case of El Anis Association
	Mrs. Unnur Edda Garðarsdóttir	University of Iceland	“You Have to Learn to Be Selfish, To Not Need Love…” Gendered Subjectivity, Love Power and Relational Colonization in Youth’s Romantic Relationships
	Mr. Zachary Baum	Rutgers University – New Brunswick, USA	When QTPOC Run, QTPOC Win: Intersectional Ambition and the Fight for State Legislative Power in America
	Mr. Luke Ribeiro Mazzei França Barros	School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (FSP/USP), Brazil	A March in Common: Transmasculine Street Mobilization in São Paulo, Brazil
	Mr. Cameron Glen	Nottingham Trent University, UK	Constructions Of Polyamory on Mainstream Social Media: A Critical Discursive Analysis
	Mr. Guillermo Leon Ramirez-Martinez	Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico	I Feel Myself Beautiful, The Metamorphoses of Body Performativity in The Transition to Wearing Dissident Underwear
	Mr. Emmanuel Osei Sarfo-Kantanka	Cambridge Theological Federation, UK	Christian Evangelical Theology and the Stigmatization of Sexual Minorities in Ghana
	Mr. Qiji Nie	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	“Minorities of the Minorities”: Intersectional Identities and Intercultural Communication among Chinese Mainland Queer Overseas Students
	Mr. Robert Blankemeyer	University of Pennsylvania, USA	Transgressing the Frame: Filmic Technique, Eros, and Boundary-Blurring in Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses
	Mx. Jay Balaam	University of East Anglia, UK	Validation of a Revised Gender-Neutral Gender Identity/Gender Dysphoria Questionnaire for Adults and Adolescents (GIGDQ-AA-GN)