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text reading reconference rethink reimagine reboot 10-12 April 2019 Nepal
gray digital pattern design of head of a woman with birdlike figure with shoulders covered in feathers
text reading reconference rethink reimagine reboot 10-12 April 2019 Nepal
gray woodcut style digital design of a woman looking through a telescope with bird wings
text reading reconference rethink reimagine reboot 10-12 April 2019 Nepal
woodcut style digital images of gray woman with bird wings
text reading reconference rethink reimagine reboot 10-12 April 2019 Nepal
wood cut style image in gray of a warrior bird woman
curated spaces
reconference is as much about the form as about the content, and the new technologies, evocative installations, and creative performances are an essential part of the experience, so these should be part of the agenda which you create for yourself. While there are standalone performances and exhibits, one of the areas in which all of these different formats combine are inside the experiential curated spaces.

Curated spaces are immersive experiences around specific themes including technology, sex work, consent and pleasure and danger, as well as disability. These spaces have been co-created with the constituencies to feature films, posters, photos and artifacts, speakers and performers to challenge entrenched stereotypes, combat misinformation, and share stories of lived realities in the voices of the people living them. For a full experience, guided visits are available during morning and afternoon sessions. In the evenings, the spaces will remain open for self-guided walk throughs. 
  • Consent and Pleasure & Danger
  • Disability
  • Sex Work
  • Technology
This space is titled Galaxies of Desires and brings together the two conference themes – consent and pleasure and danger. These form an integral part of human sexuality. Art and activism come together in this space to interrogate why pleasure has seldom been included in feminist movements, reflect if pleasures can be dangerous and dangers can be pleasurable and celebrate transgressions. It also explores the spectrum of consent. The space is imagined as galaxies – as feminist limitless possibilities of how we understand, experience and express consent, pleasure and danger.

Consent

rethink critical questions about consent, recognizing the need to ensure that encounters are based on mutual and enthusiastic desire and not just permission.

reimagine how consent plays out for different bodies, in different situations and in different people’s lives.

reboot how ideas of consent can be used to expand an intersectional feminist agenda.

Pleasure and Danger

rethink pleasure (seen through the lens of sexuality), danger (as a right to take risks to seek pleasure) and who is excluded when we talk about both.

reimagine social norms and popular culture that push for contradictory definitions of pleasure and danger, and place them in juxtaposition.

reboot the idea of pleasure and danger as being a binary, and redefine them through the lenses of agency and autonomy.
Day 1 April 10, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Speakers and abridged guided visit
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm  Speakers and guided visit
7:30 pm - 9 pm Open for self-guided walk throughs
Day 2 April 11, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Speakers and abridged guided visit
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm  Speakers and guided visit
7:30 pm - 9 pm Open for self-guided walk throughs
Day 3 April 12, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Abridged guided visit
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm  Speakers and guided visit
The curated space on disability, titled Questioning Dis/Ability, provides a live and immersive experience using art, performance, story telling and films on issues of disability and sexuality and representation of women with disabilities. The core vision guiding the design of the space has been to challenge the prevailing and stigmatizing narratives that label disabled bodies as non-normative, asexual, clumsy. The space will also be a site for cross-movement political engagement and alliance-building.

rethink issues of disability and sexuality by unpacking models that have served as defining approaches to disability.

reimagine, through art and performance, women with disabilities as artists and build a powerful counter-narrative to models that label disabled bodies as non-normative, asexual, clumsy.

reboot conversations on some of the most profound fault lines that have so far limited cross-movement alliance building on the issue of disability and abortion.
Day 1 April 10, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm  CANCELED
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm  Models of Disability – An Introduction

Legal Capacity, stigma and discrimination 

Story Telling 

Translated in French and Spanish
7:30 pm - 9 pm Open Mic Space
Day 2 April 11, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm  Models of Disability – An Introduction: Speaker and Open Q&A
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm  Models of Disability – An Introduction

Legal Capacity, stigma and discrimination 

Story Telling 

Translated in Arabic and Hindi
7:30 pm - 9 pm Performance
Day 3 April 12, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm  Abridged visit
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm  Models of Disability – An Introduction

The Resonance of the contrast - a one-actor performance on medicalization

Story Telling 

Cross-Movement Conversation: Abortion/Prenatal Testing/Disability and Principles

Translated in Nepali
Red Light. Go! a curated space where sex workers’ organizing takes center stage, and sex workers tell the stories of their own lives, choosing how to represent themselves and their work.

Each day the space features a new conversation that explores how sex work intersects with gender, race, class, capitalism, disability and technology. Join us, as we:

rethink the binary between feminism and sex work, reconsidering how women’s rights movements relate to sex work and sex workers, and how sex workers relate to feminism.

reimagine as feminists (sex workers and non-sex workers) how we talk about sex work, and make the case for sex workers’ rights and for decriminalization.

reboot feminist organizations and movements to embrace sex workers’ rights and the full decriminalization of sex work – as a feminist issue.
Day 1 April 10, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Abridged Walk 
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Speakers on the topics of:

-Sex Work as Work - It is Not Trafficking and Does Not Call for Rescue
-Let’s Chat! About Us and Our Movements 

Translated into Hindi and Nepali
7:30 pm - 9 pm Open for self-guided walk through
Day 2 April 11, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Abridged Walk 
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Speakers on the topics of:

-Complicating the Binaries of Choice and Coercion
-Let’s Chat! About Us and Our Movements 

Translated into Bangla
7:30 pm - 9 pm Open for self-guided walk through
Day 3 April 12, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Abridged Walk 
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Speakers on the topics of:

-Sex workers Controlling the Narrative
-Let’s Chat! About Us and Our Movements 

Translated into Arabic and Spanish
Welcome to our lives in the digital age: online onground physical digital. Phygital...or tangled like wool - the title of this curated space on technology. Through apps, art, talks, demos, films, quizzes and storytelling in this curated space, we will:

rethink the role and significance of technology on our lives, and collapse binary understandings of the online and the onground. 



reimagine the digital as a powerful political space of opportunities and threats, which is used both to surveil, oppress and exclude, and also as a space of struggle, resistance, and organizing. 



reboot our activism away from the false binary of physical only versus digital only, and think about how they are interwoven.

Walk with us. Talk to us. Quiz with us!
Day 1 10 April 2019
12 pm - 1:15 pm  Digital Faultlines (panel)

Digital world of impunity

Dataveillance and reproductive rights

Butterflies and leeches

Addressing inherent biases in artificial intelligence
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Digital Art & Apps (talk/workshop)

Backsies, the sexting app

Making crowdsourced art online

Podcasting on the edge
7:30 pm - 9 pm Open walk through
Day 2 11 April 2019
12 pm - 1:15 pm  Digital Dosts (interactive chat)

Missing and invisible

Lost pleasures of technology
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Digital Demos

MR Ludu, an Android abortion app

Sultana’s Reality: Afrah Shafiq
7:30 pm - 9 pm Open walk through
Day 3 12 April 2019
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Digital Stories (talk, workshop)

Skin Stories

Love in the time of Google
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