BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of English Language and Literatures//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://english.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of English Language and Literatures - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230911T2001Z-1694462494.5085-EO-23355-39@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260310T050609Z CREATED:20230911T195242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230912T024954Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231010T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231010T170000 SUMMARY: Transness at the Intersection of Materialism\, Race\, and Class | Drs. Kadji Amin and Jules Gill-Peterson DESCRIPTION: This event is hosted by the UBC Department of English Language & Literatures and sponsored by the Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality \, and Social Justice. Buchanan Tower is wheelchair accessible. Room 323 ha s doors 36 inches wide. In consideration of COVID safety\, the speakers hav e requested for in-person attendees to wear a mask. Talk Abstract […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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This event is hosted by the UBC Department of English Language & Literatures and sponsored by the < a href="https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer ">Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice.

Buchanan Tower is wheelchair accessible. Room 323 has doors 36 inc hes wide. In consideration of COVID safety\, the speakers have requested fo r in-person attendees to wear a mask.

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Talk Abstract

Dr. J ules Gill-Peterson: Trans Medicine as Welfare Reform

To better understand the political crises of the prese nt\, this talk proposes a major shift to materialist analysis in trans stud ies by highlighting race and class antagonisms in the medicalization of tra nsition. The effective dependency of the mid-century trans medical model on its political-economic function was first elaborated in San Francisco in t he late 1960s. There\, Stanford University's famous gender clinic coordinat ed with a new social service landscape for gay and trans people\, federally -funded through Great Society liberal programs. Reading these developments in their convergence\, the modern gender clinic is less a strictly medical or psychiatric program than it is an exercise in welfare reform.

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Jules Gill-Peterson (she/her/hers) is an associate professor o f History at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a fellow at the Radcliff e Institute at Harvard University this year. She is the author of Histo ries of the Transgender Children (2018) and a general co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Her next book\, A Short Histo ry of Trans Misogyny\, is forthcoming from Verso Books in January 2024 .

Talk Abstract

Trans Materia lism without Gender Identity

This talk for wards trans materialism as the political legacy of working-class\, sex-worker\, and people-of-color tr ans history. Through at least the 1960s in the US\, the transitions of people of color\, working-class people\, and sex workers were based not on an introspective inquiry into authentic gendered subjectivity \, but rather on directly material concerns – namely\, how to earn a living \, modify one’s sexed embodiment and/or gendered so cial position\, and survive. Based on this history< /span> and building on the work of Cathy Cohen\, Viviane Nama ste\, and Dean Spade\, this talk forwards trans materialism as an intersectional coalitional politics focused on making the < span class="s4">basic resources necessary to transition – including housing and access to public space wi thout police harassment – a vailable to all. Trans materialism’s focus on the reso urces necessary for transition and the practices throu gh which people transition is intended to bypass both the respectability polit ics of gender identity and the infighting that vern acular taxonomies of gender and sexual identity ina dvertently produce. For historically\, gender identity has most often served as a proxy for social antagonisms regarding class\, rac e\, public space\, and labo r. Trans politics therefore retains its capacity for social transformation to the extent that it rejec ts the false logics of identity for the exigencies of materialism.

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Kadji Amin (he/him/his) is As sociate Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuali ty Studies at Emory University and a 2023-4 fellow at the Cornell Society of Fellows. Amin is a materialist theorist of gender and sexuality. His research brings empirical scholars hip on the history of sexuality to bear on trans and queer theory. < span class="s5">Amin’s book\, Disturbing Attachments: Genet\, Modern Pederasty\, and Queer History (Duke UP 2017) won an Honorable Mention for best book in LGBT studies fo rm the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. He is currently at work on a second book titled  Trans Materialism without Gender Identity.

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