UCincinnati Black Feminist Conference Prods Students to Fight for "Trans Rights, DEI education"
Students will learn how to fight the war on on critical race theory, trans rights, and DEI education
Many colleges have been dropping their DEI related programs, but at the University of Cincinnati on March 6, the school’s Women’s Center will be playing host to a conference dedicated to black feminism, black feminists and time-travel.
This year’s Black Feminism Symposium topic is “Seeds of Change: A Black Feminist Vision of the Future” and students will present essays, posters, art projects or facilitate workshops at the Ohio university.
In a call-to-action, the Women’s Center encouraged students to submit essays and presentations. This is what the Women’s Center encouraged students to write about:
“We encourage proposals including, but not limited to topics such as:
Examples of Black women and gender non-conforming people critically mining the past to discover their future
Afrofuturism as strategy to counter attacks on critical race theory, trans rights, and DEI education
Future economies – alternatives to capitalism and welfare (ex. mutual aid, the promise of universal basic income, etc.)
Black women and trans world-makers and innovators across the disciplines
Black feminist analysis of technology and AI – our future or our downfall?”
Conference attendees are encouraged to visualize the future of Black women and gender non-conforming people.
“For our own well-being and growth as Black women and gender non-conforming people - and for our future - we must break out of the box of what we know and how we have done things and use our collective imagination to reconfigure our future without bounds.”
“If we traveled back through time to gather seeds from our ancestors, what wisdom would we have to imagine and build a future where Black women and gender non-conforming people are truly free?”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order condemning DEI policies, as well as illegal discrimination that gives preference to minorities at the expense of people with more credentials.
That was on January 21, 2025. Since then, in just two weeks, many universities have dropped programs that catered to certain students or that promoted DEI/ social justice ideology to students.
Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research has been axed, as well as majors and minors about social justice ideology, feminism and equality, according to Campus Reform.
The University of Cincinnati did not respond to a request for comment.
The Black Feminism Symposium has been a mainstay of the school’s programs for the past eight years. It’s so lauded, in fact, that the National Women’s Studies Association gave financial grants to the University of Cincinnati in recognition of the symposium, according to the school’s own write-up of the symposium.
Potential attendees are told to ponder the “imperialist, capitalist system we know today”. Students are encouraged to be joyful and reach “beyond the bounds of the status quo.
The sign up-form for presenters gave them this advice to consider.
“If the innovation of Black women and other marginalized peoples had not been intentionally exploited, discouraged, or stifled for the sake of pleasantry or respectability…. if our ancestral seeds took root, what might we grow in place of the white supremacist, imperialist, capitalist system we know today?
“How might we liberate the joyful, innovative spirit of Black, Brown, and Indigenous women and gender non-conforming people, freeing us to create a new world beyond the bounds of the status quo?” the sign up form proclaims.
“The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.” - Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
This piece was written by Toni Airaksinen, Senior Editor of Liberty Affair and a journalist based in Delray Beach, Florida. Follow her on Substack, on X @Toni_Airaksinen and on Instagram.