Keynote speaker | Panelists

Keynote speaker and commentators:

Prof. Eliza Steinbock (chair in Transgender Studies, Art, and Cultural Activism, Maastricht University)

Commentators:
Kuura Irni, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at University of Helsinki. Irni’s current research interests combine trans and queer feminisms, ecofeminisms, critical feminist animal studies, decolonial and intersectional feminisms and feminist technosciencestudies.

Vilja Jaaksi, doctoral researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Turku. Their work examines nonbinary identity and trans communities on social media, and is concerned with the ambivalence and messiness of belonging.

Panelists:

Academy researcher, PhD Touko Vaahtera, University of Eastern Finland
PhD, artist Hanna Väätäinen
Crip artist, facilitator and B.Soc.Sc. Isa Hukka