The UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference at UC Santa Cruz on April 12-13, 2025 (the Saturday and Sunday before the Pacific APA, which starts on the 15th in San Francisco). The aim of the conference is to foreground philosophical work in the analytic tradition (very broadly conceived) that is informed by queer experience, community, and theorizing, as well as to build community among queer scholars in philosophy. In addition to talks, the conference will include a workshop on LGBTQIA+ activism and philosophy, a party (of course), and other glam surprises.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Imagination and desire from a queer perspective
Ideology, propaganda, and queer and anti-queer activism
Standpoint epistemology and cishet ignorance
Self-knowledge of gender and sexuality
Discriminatory language and hate speech
Resistant queer linguistic practices
Identity labels and the representation of queer identities
Varieties of essentialism about LGBTQ+ identities
Queer solidarity and queer forms of political organizing
Re-imagining and abolishing the family
Gender reform and abolitionism
The metaphysics of sex, gender, and sexuality
Queer critiques of science
Queer aesthetics and the aesthetics of queer art
Philosophical aspects of historical queer thought
Queer approaches to the emotions and to reactive attitudes
Queer approaches to the philosophy of love, sex, and relationships
Bioethics and the treatment of queer bodies