Group Registration

To reduce confusion and streamline communication, we require groups who intend to pay together to designate two contact persons that will be held responsible for arranging payment for all attendees in their group. We recommend that a Faculty or Staff advisor accompany each student group. If you are not an officer or advisor for your group, please ask them to register first. To ensure all registrations are processed correctly, please click the button below and follow the instructions provided.

Registration Fees

• Regular Registration, $40 per person

Notice!

• Completion of the registration process constitutes agreement and obligation to pay applicable registration fee.
• Cancellation for any reason after Friday, October 17, 2025 will forfeit any refund.

Please see the Payment Methods & Policies section below for additional information.

More registration details will be made available in the summer.

Conference registration fees may be paid by Cash, Check, Credit/Debit Card, or Department Chargeback. All registration fees must be paid in advance or upon arrival at the conference or participation will be prohibited unless arrangements have been made in advance.

• Completion of the registration process constitutes agreement and obligation to pay applicable registration fee.
• Cancellation for any reason after Friday, October 17, 2025 will forfeit any refund.

Credit/Debit Card Payments

To process your registration payment via our secure online marketplace:

• Visit the Commonwealth University Marketplace.
• Click "Conference Registration" (or "Late Conference Registration")
• Enter the number of attendees you wish to pay for.
• Click "Add To Cart"
• Enter the First Name, Last Name, and Email Address for each attendee.
• Please note: Email address must match the address used on the individual registration form.
• Click "Continue"
• Review the information entered.
• Click "Checkout"
• Enter your email address.
• Click "Continue Unregistered"
• Enter your payment and billing information.
• Click "Continue"
• Click "Submit Order"

Personal or Institutional Check Payments

Checks should be made payable to "Commonwealth University" and note "LGBTQA Conference" in the Memo.

• Please mail checks to:
  LGBTQA Resource Center
  101 Kehr Union Building
  Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg
  400 East 2nd Street
  Bloomsburg, PA 17815

Cash

Cash payments will be accepted during regular business hours in the LGBTQA Resource Center (KUB 101). If paying by cash, please print your confirmation email and attach to payment.

The United States, 2025: probably not the best time and place to be trans. Part survival notes, part guide to downregulating panic, this talk explores the emotional texture of the present moment in relation to the broader project(s) of trans history. It asks after the impacts, both rhetorical and emotional, of reframing trans existence as a very old phenomenon, rather than – as many antagonistic critics have it – a novel contemporary form of “rapid onset gender dysphoria” sweeping both nation and globe. Framing trans history as a consolation in the wake of the decline of faith in narratives of progress, it argues that while situations of crisis are ordinary for trans subjects, so are ingenious and virtuosic tactics of everyday collective care and solidarity that make trans lives more possible.

Hil Malatino is Joyce L. and Douglas S. Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University. He is the author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (Minnesota 2022), Trans Care (Minnesota 2020), and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (Nebraska 2019), and Climbing (forthcoming, Duke 2026). He is also the co-editor the t4t issue of TSQ alongside Cam Awkward-Rich and the "Care Ethics Otherwise" issue of Essays in Philosophy alongside Sarah Clark-Miller and Amy McKiernan. His essays have appeared in Hypatia, TSQ, Signs, and many other journals and edited volumes. He is a Lambda Literary Award finalist and recipient of the Leslie Feinberg Award in Trans Literature. 

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The 2025 Mid-Atlantic LGBTQA Conference agenda is available at the link below.

Conference Agenda

The conference will be held in McCormick Center for Human Services (MCHS) on the Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg Campus.

We recommend that all participants follow these directions to campus:

• Take Interstate 80 to exit 236.
• Follow Route 487 South approximately 1.4 miles.
• Use the center lane at the traffic signal to continue forward, campus is on your left.
• Use the second left to enter campus between two large "Bloomsburg University" signs.
• McCormick center is directly in front of you, park anywhere in the lot to the right.  Reserved parking signage is intended for conference participants.

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Hotel information will be made available closer to the date of the event.

If you require accommodative services to fully participate in the conference, please email MidAtlanticLGBTQA@commonwealthu.edu including the details of your need and list of sessions you plan to attend.

Visit our Conference Archive page for a complete history of the conference.

The Conference Committee welcomes college students of any level, faculty, staff, civic activists, and independent scholars to submit proposals for the conference. Your presentation may focus on any queer topics of interest regardless of relation to the annual theme or keynote topic. Full details of the call will be posted when available.

The Mid-Atlantic LGBTQA Conference consists chiefly of 60-minute sessions, a keynote presentation, and special events arranged by the Conference Committee.

All members of the community are encouraged to submit proposals for sessions, posters, workshops, art installations, performances, etc. Please see our session type descriptions for guidance while developing your own proposals. Standard and creative presentation formats are encouraged. To explore past programs, themes, and keynote information, please check out our conference archive page for a complete history of the conference.

The conference committee will evaluate proposals based on quality, clarity, and relevance. Undergraduate students are encouraged but not required to include the name of an advisor who has worked with you on your project. We look forward to reading your proposals and seeing you at our next conference.

Please email any questions, comments, and concerns to MidAtlanticLGBTQA@commonwealthu.edu.

All sessions will be held in academic classrooms which include the following equipment:

• Projection screen and speakers
• Windows 11 workstation w/ internet access
• Document Camera
• Laptop computer connection via HDMI
• Wireless internet access

Does your organization or business have information to share with conference attendees? We welcome organizations participating in the conference that wish to display information about their organization to do so in the lobby throughout the event.

Participation is subject to approval by the Conference Committee.

All participants are required to register for the conference and pay the applicable registration fee.

Please email MidAtlanticLGBTQA@commonwealthu.edu for more information.

• Clay Corbin, Conference Chair
• Asa Kelley, Conference Operations Coordinator
• Megan Wein, Resource Center Coordinator
• Damien Marken, Commission President
• Monica Johnson
• Dan McCurry
• Gretchen Osterman
• Craig Young