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collective power 2025

Saturday April 5th 

8:30 – 10:00AM: BREAKFAST

9:00AM – 5:45PM: (Childcare Unit and Low Sensory Zone Hours)

Multimedia Art Exhibit: Hours and location to be determined

The Spectral Landscape of the Womb: The Spectral Landscape of the Womb is a multimedia art collection by Lucila Carballo, a full-spectrum doula and Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst. The collection features reproductive stories of Latinx immigrants living in shelters across New England, exploring experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, miscarriage, and infant loss. Rooted in a borderland perspective that weaves together languages, territories, and temporalities, the collection presents the womb as an existential nexus—where life and death, trauma and pleasure, ancestors and unborn beings converge. This “uterine limbo” is expressed through three interconnected dimensions: geopolitical borders, intergenerational memories, and futuristic liberatory visions.

10:15AM – 11:30AM: Opening Plenary: From Local Struggles to Global Resistance: Confronting Authoritarianism, White Supremacy, and Building Power for Reproductive Justice

11:45AM – 12:45PM: LUNCH with a special performance

 1:15 – 2:30PM: WORKSHOP SLOT #1

2:30 – 2:45PM: BREAK

 2:50PM – 4:05PM: WORKSHOP SLOT #2

4:05PM – 4:30PM: BREAK

4:30PM – 5:45PM: Resistance Speak-Out 

An open-mic session where conference participants are welcome to share how they’ve been resisting injustice in their communities and on their campuses. At Collective Power, we recognize that resistance takes many forms. Whether you’re advocating for abortion rights, organizing for racial equity, sharing your journey of accessing gender-affirming care, or challenging systemic oppression in other ways, your voice matters. This session is a space for storytelling, solidarity, and inspiration—where we can celebrate our collective power and learn from one another’s resilience and creativity.

5:45PM – 6:45PM: DINNER 

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Sunday April 6th 

8:30AM – 9:30AM: BREAKFAST

9:00AM – 12:30PM: (Childcare Unit and Low Sensory Zone Hours)

Multimedia Art Exhibit: Hours and location to be determined

The Spectral Landscape of the Womb: The Spectral Landscape of the Womb is a multimedia art collection by Lucila Carballo, a full-spectrum doula and Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst. The collection features reproductive stories of Latinx immigrants living in shelters across New England, exploring experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, miscarriage, and infant loss. Rooted in a borderland perspective that weaves together languages, territories, and temporalities, the collection presents the womb as an existential nexus—where life and death, trauma and pleasure, ancestors and unborn beings converge. This “uterine limbo” is expressed through three interconnected dimensions: geopolitical borders, intergenerational memories, and futuristic liberatory visions.

9:45AM – 11:00AM: WORKSHOP SLOT #3

11:15am – 12:30PM: Closing Plenary: Disability Justice in Reproductive Justice: Inspiring Action and Building Strategy for a More Inclusive Future with Imani Barbarin 

12:30PM – 1:30PM: LUNCH 

Conference ends

collective power 2024

Collective Power 2024 took place April
12-13, convening more than 300 students
and community activists representing 130
organizations and 65 campuses from 33
states, Washington D.C., and Canada. Together,
we explored ways of organizing that centered
impacted communities, fostered collective
resistance, and practiced community care
through 35 workshops and two plenaries.

Workshops included a drag story hour, yoga,
martial arts, and embodied practices, as well
as workshops discussing contraception justice,
prison abolition, fat phobia, trans asylum
seekers, and more. The conference culminated
in the final stop of Lady Shug’s “LaLa Land
Back Tour”— a powerful performance and love
letter to the Indigiqueer community.