Join us for the first seminar of the Warwick CSWG Graduate Seminar series 2021/22, themed "Law and Disorder".

All are welcome.

This session will explore gender-related impasses in the legal and activist spheres. Based on black queer feminist abolitionist praxis and carceral logic, crimes of sexual violence are put under discursive scrutiny to demonstrate a long due need for reforms to address femicide and misogyny within the criminal legal system. Similarly, another investigation aims to assess the political relevance of data gathering, visualisation, and dissemination to eliminate violence against women in Latin America. Finally, based on trans writing and surveillance and sensory criminology scholarship, an investigation on self and group- regulation and the renegotiation of sounds interrogate how the patriarchal governance of gender forces self-identifying women and men into traditional structures.

The following papers will be presented:

• “I walk gently and speak softly”: exploring how we hear gender by interrogating the surveillance of sound within the public bathroom" by Lizzie Hughes
• "Misogyny and Hate Crime" by Meghan Hoyt
• "The Productive Character of Carcerality: How are carceral logics producing and shaping critical feminist approaches to sexual violence?" by Molly Ackhurst and Nic Aaron

If you have any questions about the event, please contact the organising committee (cswgseminarseries@gmail.com).