Friday, January 24 2025, 12:40 - 1:30pm MLC 248 Dr. Katherine Sobering Sociology & Women's Studies University of North Texas Personal website The Queer Birth Project: Feminist Interdisciplinary Methods and LGBTQ+ Family-Building in the 21st Century In 1981, feminist artist Judy Chicago asked: “How do women feel about all aspects of birth?” In the resulting Birth Project (1980-85), Chicago created a series of artwork that celebrated “the birth-giving capacity of women along with their creative spirit.” Drawing on interdisciplinary and collaborative methods at the intersection of the arts and social sciences, this project revisits and reframes this question forty years later to examine LGBTQ+ experiences of childbirth and family formation in the 21st century. The event is co-sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Institute for Women's Studies, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute
