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October 10, 2026
8:00am-4:00pm
Some of the most important conversations about feminism, history, justice, and social change aren't happening in classrooms—they're happening in our communities.
That's why Project Enough, along with other local organizations, are creating F*CK the Patriarchy—a one-day conference dedicated to learning, critical thinking, creativity, and collective action.
This conference is rooted in the belief that feminism must be intersectional. Together, we'll explore how patriarchy intersects with race, white supremacy, LGBTQIA+ justice, disability, class, reproductive justice, and other systems of power. We'll ask difficult questions, challenge assumptions, learn from one another, and leave with practical tools for creating change.
Your registration includes workshops and experiences exploring reproductive freedom, race, gender, sexuality, Indigenous feminisms, labor, bodily autonomy, community-building and more. Breakfast and lunch included with your registration.
Meet Our Keynote Speaker
Kristie Puckett is the Chief of Staff and Lead Strategist at Second Chance Federation (SCF), a law firm and advocacy organization serving incarcerated and justice-involved people, with a particular focus on pregnant and parenting people, birth justice, and the restoration of civil and voting rights for people with records.
Kristie's path into this work started with her own. She struggled with substance use, was incarcerated, and took a plea deal to move her case forward.
Shortly after her release, she gave birth to twins, and found herself trying to become a mother again while also rebuilding a relationship with her older son and figuring out how to live in a body and a family the system had already tried to define for her.
A mentor, Ms. Willoughby, and a program called Family Ties became central to that healing, showing her what it looked like to be supported instead of surveilled.
That story is told in more depth in Held & Healing, a documentary that follows Kristie's journey through substance use, incarceration, birth, and the long work of rebuilding, made in collaboration with director Avrell Stokes.
It's the same belief that shapes everything Second Chances Federation does now:
that the people closest to the harm are also closest to the healing, just furthest from the dignity and justice they deserve.
In her keynote, Kristie will ask a question at the center of this conference:
When we say "We the People,"
who is actually included?
Reproductive freedom in this country has never applied equally. Whether someone gets to make choices about their own body and their own family often depends on their race, their income, their record, or whether they are incarcerated at all.
Kristie will talk about what it means to expand that "we," and what it takes to move from awareness to action, especially for people who have resources, access, and power that others don't.
This keynote is not about guilt. It's about clarity: naming who the systems were built to protect, who they were never built for, and what each of us can actually do about that gap, starting today, in our own communities.
Meet Our Facilitators
Michelle Stanley
Michelle is an enrolled member of the Coharie Tribe, located in present-day Sampson County in North Carolina. Michelle has provided research and data analysis work for universities, independent researchers, and non-profit organizations. Her work has focused on challenging settler colonialism, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous genocide denial, MMIWG2S+, Indigenous feminisms, Native American experiences in higher education, and the histories of Tribal Nation operated schools in NC. As an instructor, she has taught Indigenous Feminisms, Indigenous feminist politics and resistance, and Indigenous women. Michelle also co-organized the Annual Powwow at UNC Charlotte for two years. She earned her master’s degree in Public Administration, graduate certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, and Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Psychology from UNC Charlotte. Michelle also worked for 9 years as a staff member within the Sociology and Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics offices at UNC Charlotte. Michelle currently works at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and is an apprentice at Carolina Wildlife Conservation Center.
Neah'Marie Hubbard
Neah’Marie Hubbard is the North Carolina State Coordinator for SisterSong, advancing reproductive justice for Black women while honoring their agency, history, and collective power. Raised in a single-parent household in Charlotte, they developed an early understanding of resilience, identity, and creating spaces where people are celebrated rather than marginalized. The passing of Erica Garner deepened their commitment to reproductive justice and movement work. Their approach centers history, research, community organizing, and healing spaces for Black communities and communities of color.
Sarah Gallucci
Sarah Gallucci is a published author and has written reported features for CNN, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, among others. She has given two TEDx talks and hosts writing workshops around the world.
T.D. Harper-Shipman
T.D. Harper-Shipman is Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Davidson College, teaching and publishing on political economy, race, and gender in Africa. Her work appears in Journal of Asian and African Studies, Third World Quarterly, International Studies Review, Africa Is a Country, and The Global African Worker. Her book, Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa, was published by Routledge in 2019. She is an academic editor at Third World Quarterly and forum editor at Miami Institute of Social Sciences.
Lisa Ann (LA Marks) Markuson
LA Marks has never been particularly interested in poetry behaving itself. As a poet, cultural entrepreneur, and the founder and Chief Poetic Officer of Ars Poetica, she has spent more than a decade releasing poetry from its usual habitats and putting it back where people live: around dinner tables, inside museums, across stages, at weddings, in hotels, throughout conferences, and into the hands of complete strangers.
Cara Lee Murphy
CaraLee Murphy has 20 years experience in the nonprofit field, 10 years in anti-human trafficking, and a lifetime of experience dismantling high-control religious trauma and indoctrination. She lives in Charlotte with her partners and personal zoo and spends her free time considering how to solve the world's problems while rhinestoning her vintage porch goose.
Dionne Hunter
Dionne D. Hunter is an award winning performance poet, author, creative producer, cultural curator, and community arts advocate whose work explores identity, legacy, resilience, representation, and the ways creativity can help people reconnect with themselves and one another.
Christa Robles
Christa has spent 15+ years doing the unglamorous work that comes after the burning down: building the spaces people actually walk into once the old structures are gone. Six years as a Charlotte-based Middle School Social Studies teacher taught her what inequity looks like up close, in real classrooms, with real kids — and sent her into education consulting to build something better at scale.