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A conversation about the art and everyday cultures of trans women, past and present.
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How do we communicate with each other? How do we pass on what we learn to sisters to come? What are the arts of femininity that we borrow and invent? How does something like the trans feminine exist in different cultures and times and how those connections be understood without erasing differences? One day we might have comprehensive histories and theories about the art of the trans woman (broadly defined).
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This event brings together Jules Gill-Peterson, Eva Hayward and Bishakh Som — three scholars, artists, and writers — to share what they know, what we can learn and how to navigate some of the complexities of thinking and living the aesthetic dimension of our lives. The conversation is moderated by McKenzie Wark.
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Image credit: Bishakh Som
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Presented by Culture & Media at Eugene Lang College, the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute at The New School, and eflux journal.
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Jules Gill-Peterson is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), the first book to shatter the widespread myth that transgender children are a brand new generation in the twenty-first century. Jules is currently at work on a book project entitled Gender Underground: A History of Trans DIY, which reframes the trans twentieth century not through institutional medicine, but the myriad do-it-yourself practices of trans people that forged parallel medical and social worlds of transition. She is Associate Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Eva Hayward is Associate Professor in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of New Mexico, Uppsala University (Sweden), Duke University, and the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on the study of sensation, sexuality, and science. She has recently published articles in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Cultural Anthropology, Parallax, differences, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Women and Performance.
Bishakh Som is the author of Apsara Engine (Feminist Press, 2020) and the graphic memoir Spellbound (Street Noise Books 2020). Her comics have appeared in The New Yorker, We’re Still Here (The first all-trans comics anthology), The Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere. er architectural work is featured in Singlehandedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019). She holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and worked for many years in the field (most notably at I.M. Pei’s New York office).
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