Why is it important that the conference considers gender studies in relation to media?
PO: Console-ing Passions was originally generated as the result of this desire to talk very directly about the intersection between those two issues, so it’s always been at the forefront of Console-ing Passions as an entity. [With] each iteration of [the conference] it’s the responsibility of the board and the organizers that this topic is really central to whatever develops at the conference. CS: And selfishly, there are so few spaces that are feminist, and I think one of the things that people really value is being able to come to this conference and have conversations with people in these fields about gender. People who are knowledgeable, people who are invested in it, people who are committed to feminist theory. They don’t get to have those conversations anywhere else. There are things you can assume when you present your paper here. You aren’t going to have to deal with people who are going to object to the emphasis on gender or people who are going to object to thinking about int
