6th International Sexuality and Social Work Conference

The conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and students in the field of social work from around the world who engage with topics related to sexuality, gender, reproductive justice, and the rights and challenges associated with these areas. It promotes critical reflection, international collaboration, and the exchange of experiences, with the aim of co-creating inclusive, just, and ethically responsible approaches in contemporary social work.

Themes:

• Every day lived gender and sexuality across the lifespan
• Justice and rights (reproductive, gender, sexuality)
• Systems and state responses to reproductive justice
• Activism, struggles for equality and resistance
• Gender, sexuality and reproductive rights in social & health care: historical perspectives
• Intersectional perspectives: racism, ageism, ableism, class issues, neurodiversity etc.
• Education and training in social work, health and allied professions
• Health and wellbeing
• LGBTQ+ histories and epistemologies
• Marriage equality, parenthood and families of choice
• Relationships and partnerships beyond a mono-normative society
• Other