The speakers had a variety of views, but the consensus on the panel was that an alliance is indeed forming on social and cultural issues,
specifically gender and sexuality, and that this alliance will have a serious influence on domestic and global politics.
Punchbag added further complexities to questions of raced,
gendered and cultural identities raised by Glenn Ligon's Skin Tight: Muhammed Ali Text (1995)[Figs.85 - 86], a punchbag
and text piece which
specifically sought to address «how black men have used boxing to confront issues of black American identity»
and «the construction of masculinity in relation to questions of violence, the commodification of black subjects,
sexuality and resistance.»