A GLOBAL ONLINE CONVENING
July 16th, 2025
Join us on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 at 9 AM Mexico City / 11 AM New York / 4 PM London / 6 PM Nairobi / 8:30 PM Delhi! If you cannot join the live event, or if you miss a portion of it, we will be emailing a password protected recording to all registrants after the convening.
Live interpretation into Spanish, Portuguese, and French will be provided.
Sign up for the conversation here. Registration is required and will remain open until July 14th at 11:59pm PST.
Queer Now: Story as Antidote
Come join the creative resistance and explore how queer storytelling as a cultural strategy visions better futures. During this 2.5-hour online convening, we will equip ourselves with a shared understanding about the rise of the global anti-gender movement, and learn about its roots, its funding, influence on culture and politics, and importantly, understand its weaknesses. Join us to build shared strategies, spark creative ideas, and amplify the bold, beautiful stories being told by and about queer communities around the world. Bringing solidarity, strength and a celebration of our multitudes.
Registration is required and will remain open until July 14th, 2025 at 11:59pm PST.
Opening
Hosted by Twiggy Pucci Garçon alongside Doc Society’s Beadie Finzi
ACT 1: How We Got Here
Understanding the Anti-Gender Movement
Hosted by J. Bob Alotta
ACT 2: The Stories We Need Now
Illuminating Our Constellation of Narratives
Hosted by Nim Ralph
Celebration of Stories
ACT 3: Cultural Strategy Works
Story as Antidote in Action - Impact Case Studies
Panel - How We Make Cultural Strategy Work
Moderated by Felipe Estefan
Closing
Featured Speakers
Twiggy Pucci Garçon
Director/Producer; DocSociety Inc Board Member
J. Bob Alotta
Principal at Lucid Assembly
Felipe Estefan
Fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School
Nim Ralph
Educator, Activist, Movement Theorist
Kimberly Reed
Filmmaker
Haley McEwen
PhD, Researcher, Sweden/South Africa
Jay Mulucha
Human Rights Activist; Executive Director, Fem Alliance Uganda
DaShawn Usher
Senior Director, Communities of Color and Media, GLAAD; Founder + Executive Director, Mobilizing Our Brothers Initiative (MOBI)
Subha Wijesiriwardena
Feminist activist, Researcher, and Communicator
Michelle Plascencia Esparza
Global Impact Producers Alliance, Partnerships & Programs
Lori Regattieri
Practitioner Fellow in Democracy, Karsh Institute of Democracy, University of Virginia
Registration is required and will remain open until July 14th, 2025 at 11:59pm PST.
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