Transgender Studies Reading Group

The ASU School of Social Transformation is excited for upcoming, spring sessions of the Transgender Studies Reading Group. The reading group, curated by SST Assistant Professor Sa Whitley, is an informal place for ASU faculty and students to discuss scholarship in Transgender Studies in conversation with contemporary art and politics. Participants will read and discuss a few scholarly articles in the field at each meeting. Venue location and lunch will be provided for those who register.

Co-produced by ASU Communication Studies Ph.D. student Mary Katreeb and Professor Whitley, the March reading group session will explore how trans care (in many forms, including t4t) has been theorized, embodied, and relied on as a means of communal survival outside (and in spite of) the state. Importantly, not all of the works we will engage this month emerge from Transgender Studies “proper,” and this is a political move that calls us to resist harsh, disciplinary borders that isolate us from each other. Indeed, moments of trans care are happening everywhere around us (and most often, we find them outside of the academy!). Two of the guiding questions for this session are:

• How do theories and praxes of trans care inform and sharpen each other politically?
• How do we move through moments of tension or "messiness" in trans care since purity politics won't save us under rising fascism?

For any questions, please contact Sa Whitley, Ph.D. ([email protected]) - Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies and Co-Director of Queer X Humanities at the ASU Humanities Institute.