Transgender Studies Reading Group - Transgender Masculinity

Event description

  • Academic events
  • Free
  • Inclusion

ASU School of Social Transformation is excited to host the second year of the Transgender Studies Reading Group. Facilitated by Professor, Sa Whitley, the reading group 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 Professor Sa Whitley and ASU Gender Studies Ph.D. student, Aja St. Germaine, the September reading group session will explore how transgender masculinities (or trans masculinities) have been theorized, experienced, and politicized from the 1990s to the present. Importantly, the cultural meanings of trans masculinity opened up conversations in Queer Studies, revealing fissures between queer and trans studies and proving existing feminist approaches as incommensurate in queer and trans of color studies. We will read works by scholars who have written about the relationship between trans masculinity and queer politics. 

Four of the guiding questions for the session are:

• How has the meaning of trans* masculinity changed in conversation with historical embodiments and expressions of trans masc identity?

• How did lesbian feminist debates about the relationship between butch identity and trans masculine identities in the early 2000s shape the field of WGS? 

• What responses have trans* scholars, artists, and people articulated to the conservative backlash against trans masc people's lives, rights, and cultures? Importantly, how did lesbian feminist debates about the relationship between butch identity and trans masculine identities in the early 2000s shape the field of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)?

• How did lesbian feminist debates about the relationship between butch identity and trans masculine identities in the early 2000s shape the field of WGS?

For any questions related to the September theme, please contact Sa Whitley - Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies and Co-Director of Queer X Humanities, a new initiative at the ASU Humanities Institute. 

Event contact

Jennifer Schwartz
jennifer.schwartz.1@asu.edu
Date

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Venue located will be shared with those who register.

Time

12 p.m.1:30 p.m. (MST)

Cost

Free