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Participants arriving at the Backstage: Exploring Gender and Perception Conference at swissnex San Francisco.
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Speakers Dominique Grisard, Director of Swiss Center for Social Research and lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Basel, and Jack Halberstam, Professor at the University of Southern California
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Mona de Weerdt talking with participants before the conference starts.
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Everyone had a good time.
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Cecilia Chung, Senior Strategist of the Transgender Law Center talking about advocacy for human rights, social justice, health equity, and LGBT equality.
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Dominique Grisard talking about her project "Pink", which weaves a history of gender, sexuality, and (skin) color through and around the color pink.
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Jack Halberstam giving a talk about why we need more wildness to overcome the current binary view on gender.
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Cynthia Krauss, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and the Social Studies of Science and Medicine at University of Lausanne, Switzerland, talking about the neuroscience of desire and the brain's role in defining sex.
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The talks raised many questions, which the participants were able to talk about in a short break.
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Conference participants discussing gender in a quick break.
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Also the speakers had a fun time together.
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After a short break Keith Hennessy, performer, choreographer, teacher, writer, and organizer out mapped his thoughts on perception.
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After the talks the speakers sat together with the participants in small groups for more intimate talks on their fields of expertise.
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Dominique Grisard engaging with the participants.
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Keith Hennessy explained how he discovered out mapping his thoughts as a form of art.
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Cynthia Krauss elaborating on how our brain affects gender performance.
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After the talks in small groups, the discussion was again opened up to the plenum with a Q&A session for all speakers.
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The participants didn't run out of questions...