The University of Kentucky did quickly keep its 5th monthly Gender and Women’s Studies conference, with this year’s theme focused on decrying therefore- called “right- wing … injustices”.
” Justice on Test” is the concept for the Aug. 31 conference, as “right- wing parties” have “paved the way for traditional laws that harm the physical autonomy of women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and another excluded communities”, according to the conference website.
” Left- aircraft politicians and activists across the globe work for individual rights and protections”, it stated. Some of the “injustices” the meeting will handle contain” Anti- abortion laws, anti- trans laws, and encroachment on intellectual freedom”, according to the conference website.
However, some women disapprove of the unborn’s rules.
Pro-lifers are constantly being criticized by abortion companies and their surrogates who view abortion as “reproductive fairness,” a part of “women’s right,” according to Serrin Foster, leader of Feminists for Life, in an email sent to The College Fix.
Feminists for Life has been engaged in Washington, D. C. since 1994. Foster is the only pro-life advocate who served on the National Taskforce on Domestic Violence before the Violence Against Women Act was passed.
” From the states to Congress to the U. N., we see attempts to pass in terminology in regulations and legislation that promote’ independence,’ ‘ choice,’ and ‘ sexual wellness.’ Translation: Abortion. Nothing is as it seems”, Foster said.
The Conference Fix contacted the conference website to inquire if any opposing voices would be featured at the conference, but they were unsuccessful in reaching out.
In addition to the topics like “anti- abortion” and “anti- trans” laws, the conference is accepting submissions for papers that address issues like “environmental justice”,” carceral justice”, and “immigration/refugee/border justice”, according to its website.
No keynote speakers or conference schedule has been announced. Andrea Jenkins, the first transgender black woman to hold a public office in the United States, is among the speakers at the event. She is currently the president of Minneapolis ‘ city council.
Previous conferences have held “workshops and” panels “on” the power of the# MeToo movement, self- care, food justice advocates, white supremacy, roots of reproduction and many others,” the university’s website states.
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the UK’s gender & women’s studies, and the UK’s gender & women’s studies are among the sponsors of the conference.
The Fix emailed Charlie Zhang, the University of Kentucky’s director of undergraduate studies, but they were unable to contact him.
In Jan. 2024, The College Fix reported on the introduction of Kentucky’s Senate Bill 6, proposed by Republican Sen. Mike Wilson, to prohibit discrimination at public postsecondary education institutions” due to the individual’s refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept.”
Divisive concepts described include classifying one’s race or sex to be inherently more or less privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive.
Wilson stated via email to The Fix at the time that the bill “does NOT limit discussion in the classroom; it simply prevents students and employees from being subjected to the false litmus test DEI principles are shrouded in.”
The bill’s focus is on safeguarding First Amendment rights for everyone at our public universities in Kentucky, Wilson told The Fix earlier this year.
Progress on Senate Bill 6 appears to have reached a standstill.
When they come back on April 12, lawmakers could revive the bill, but they would have no authority to override Dem. Gov. Andy Beshear’s certain veto,” the Kentucky Lantern reported.
Political disputes between the University of Kentucky administration and students have recently emerged.
In 2019, a transgender joke in a University of Kentucky production of” Shrek: The Musical” sparked a bias complaint from students.
In the same year, UK administrators were discovered making fun of and conspiring against university students who applied for funding for a Young Americans for Freedom chapter.
A YAF spokesman said at the time in a news release that” campus leftists” “like” the power they wield to prevent conservatives from freely organizing and sharing their ideas.
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