Gender Talk series, Centre for Gender Studies/GEXcel, Karlstad University (Web)

Time: 07.09.2022, 15.15–16.45
Venue: Karlstad University and virtual space

To what extent is the theorization of trans engagements with techno-medical processes embedded in a colonial/modern, Eurocentric understanding of technicity? This talk traces accounts of technologies of transition in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, illuminating how an embrace of the idea of originary technicity has transformed how bodies (trans and cis) are understood, interpellated, and modified; clarifying why such an articulation has mattered as a philosophico-political counter to transantagonistic claims that trans bodies are unnatural and inorganic; and asking after the limitations of such articulations.

Hil Malatino is the Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State. He is the author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (Minnesota 2022), Trans Care (Minnesota 2020) which won the Publishing Triangle Award and was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience. He is also co-editor (alongside Cam Awkward-Rich) of the t4t issue of Trans Studies Quarterly. His work has been published in Signs, Hypatia, TSQ, Rhizomes, The New Inquiry, Ms. Magazine, and many other journals and edited volumes (Web).

Register for a Zoom link with jennie.sarnmark@kau.se no later than September 5th.

Source: Genus.se