[QTCA FEATURED PANEL]

Dreamers and Schemers: On Trans* and Queer Worldbuilding

Friday, February 20, 2026 | 2:30 PM- 4:00PM | Hilton Chicago - 3rd Floor - Williford C

Chairs

• Lorenzo Triburgo, Oregon State University

• Jennifer Sichel, University of Louisville

• Jason Le

Discussant

• Ace Lehner, University of Vermont

Presentations

• Collaboratively Mapping Queer and Trans Utopias / Jaimes Mayhew, University of Vermont

• Julia's Room: Moments of Disorientation in Imagined Worlds / David Hannon, Drexel University

• Participatory Trans Art as Trans Community Building / Emmett Ramstad, University of Minnesota

• Portraits-à-clef: The Keys to Modern Lesbos / Lily F. Scott, Philadelphia Museum of Art

• We Make the Runway Ours: Fashioning Futures with LGBTQIA Youth / Steven Frost, University of Colorado at Boulder

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