Gender Research Office (Univ. of Vienna) (Web) and AG Inter*Trans_Nonbinary (Web)

Time: 15.10.2025, 7–8.30 PM
Place: Univ. Wien, Koling. 14-16, 1090 Wien, Seminarraum 7, 1st floor

At the event, the book „Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation“ by Juliana Gleeson (Verso Books 2025) (Web) will be presentet.
„Hermaphrodite Logic“ traces how intersex activists countered medical intervention and pathologisation with wit, collective struggle, and political reason. Gleeson argues that intersex people have been harmed not merely for therapeutic reasons but to manage professional and parental anxieties – revealing how medical power operates to enforce sex norms. Her critical history celebrates a movement that challenges this power and ruptures normative conceptions of gender and sexuality, offering insights for contemporary liberationist organising. The conversation will explore the development of the intersex movement, its challenges and strategies, and the alliances that shape its ongoing struggles for bodily autonomy and self-determination.

Programme

• Conversation by Juliana Gleeson and Tinou Ponzer, chairperson of VIMÖ (Verein Intergeschlechtlicher Menschen Österreich) (Web) and co-editor of Inter*Pride: Perspektiven aus einer weltweiten Menschenrechtsbewegung (Web)
• Moderated by Boka En (Gender Research Office, AG Inter*Trans_Nonbinary, Gender Studies Association Austria)

Organised by the Gender Research Office (Univ. of Vienna) and the AG Inter*Trans_Nonbinary (Gender Studies Association Austria) in coop. with the Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies (Univ. of Vienna) and the Department of Philosophy (Univ. of Vienna).
The conversation will be in English, with no sign language interpretation. The room and nearby toilets are wheelchair-accessible.

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