Lesbian Lives Conference 2027- Call For Papers

Lesbians have long created worlds of their own, refusing the limits of the lives they were offered. Across different places and histories, they have imagined new ways to desire, belong, make kin, and build a future. Amid rising authoritarianisms, perpetual war and genocide, religious fundamentalism, and attacks on feminist, queer, and trans lives, Transnational Lesbian Liberation asks what liberation can mean now: what we have inherited, what we must resist, and what we are creating together.

For its 30th anniversary, Lesbian Lives comes to the San Francisco Bay Area, with its histories of political rebellion, transgressive cultures of sex and pleasure, migration, and experiments in collective life. Gathering here from different parts of the world, we ask what liberation looks like in different places, what we can learn from one another, and what new possibilities emerge when those experiences meet.

Lesbian Lives brings academics, artists, writers, filmmakers, and activists together in the same room to share work, exchange ideas, debate, and celebrate lesbian life and culture. For 30 years, the conference has created conversations that cross the boundaries between scholarship, politics, art, and lived experience, bringing different generations and perspectives into contact with one another. Trans-inclusive and intersectional, Lesbian Lives welcomes people of all sexualities and genders to take part.

We welcome proposals from scholars, students, activists, artists, writers, and filmmakers. See full call for papers here: https://tinyurl.com/56fuzb3h