The signals are already here. Women now earn the majority of college degrees in the United States. The largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history is underway, and women are set to inherit trillions. In states that have banned abortion, young women are leaving — shifting demographics, reshaping electorates, concentrating political power in new ways. These are small shifts that compound. Seneca Falls Convention 2048 asks: what happens if we trace these threads forward? What kind of political landscape emerges when matriarchal power has had a generation to take root?
The project imagines a convention held two hundred years after the original Seneca Falls gathering — a moment when women return to that ground to rewrite the rules entirely. I designed the speculative artifacts for this near-future assembly: keynote speech descriptions and delegate credentials. The materials sit in an uncanny valley between familiar and strange — recognizable enough to feel plausible, different enough to feel like a dare.
This is speculative fiction meant to spark conversation. By making a matriarchal political future tangible — something with logos, schedules, and speaker bios — the project invites people to argue about how we get there. Which choices matter. Which coalitions form. What breaks, and what gets built. The future is up for grabs. This is one version of what claiming it could look like.
