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DESCRIPTION:Trans Studies Now! This is the last event of a year-long speake
 r series organized by the Feminist\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Program
  and the LGBT Studies Program at Cornell\, with co-sponsorship from the Dep
 artment of Literatures in English and the Society for the Humanities. Featu
 ring cutting-edge scholars from a range of disciplines\, the series offers 
 a forum for discussing this field.\n\nGuests are invited to read these sele
 cted articles before the event.\n\nMarquis Bey '19 \n\nTalk title: "Impossi
 ble Nonbinary Dreams" \n\nBey’s work focuses on thinking blackness not as r
 acial identification but as “paraontological\,” and utilizes this understan
 ding to recalibrate how we might move through questions of nonnormative sub
 jectivity—via race\, gender\, and personhood. Through black feminist theory
 \, trans and nonbinary studies\, and abolitionist theory\, Bey articulates 
  a project of black trans feminism that is not beholden to a veneration of 
 particular subjects but rather an assertion of the dismantling of the norma
 tive constraints that define the world—white supremacy\, cisnormativity\, a
 nd heteropatriarchy as well as the categories of race and gender themselves
 . \n\nBey is the author\, most recently\, of Black Trans Feminism and Ciste
 m Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (both published with Duke Univ
 ersity Press\, 2022) and is currently at work on a three-volume collection 
 of critical essays on “jailbreaking” gender\, race\, and class. \n\nAmy Bra
 iner \n\nTalk title: “Beyond Identity: Trans in Relation” \n\nAmy studies q
 ueer and trans family issues in Taiwan and in transnational contexts. Her f
 irst book\, Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan (Rutgers\, 2019)\, re
 ceived the 2019 Ruth Benedict Prize from the Association for Queer Anthropo
 logy. Her current research follows queer and trans individuals and couples 
 as they navigate marriage-based immigration to the United States. At UM-Dea
 rborn\, Dr. Brainer is Coordinator of the LGBTQ Studies Certificate and tea
 ches a number of courses in the program\, including Sexualities\, Genders\,
  and Bodies (WGST/HUM/SOC 366)\, LGBTQ Religious Experience (WGST/RELS/SOC 
 388)\, Family\, Sexuality\, and Human Rights (WGST/ANTH/SOC 451)\, and Hope
  and Joy in Queer and Trans Lives (FNDS 1602).\n\nEmma Heaney\n\nTalk title
 : “Cisness\, Patriarchy\, and Bodily Freedom" \n\nA scholar of comparative 
 literature\, feminist studies\, and trans studies. Her first book\, The New
  Woman: Literary Modernism\, Queer Theory\, and the Trans Feminine Allegory
  (Northwestern UP 2017) traces the medicalization of trans femininity and t
 he uptake of the resulting diagnostic in works of literature and theory. He
 r edited collection\, Feminism Against Cisness [Duke UP 2023]\, gathers ess
 ays by trans studies scholars that demonstrate the potential of feminist cr
 itique freed of the ideology that assigned sex determines sexed experience.
  Her current research derives a theory of the transformation of queer and t
 rans identities from works of literature spanning the long twentieth centur
 y. Emma was previously an Assistant Professor of English at William Patters
 on University and has held fellowships at MacDowell and the Marble House Pr
 oject.\n\nThe event will be held at the A.D. White House\; and is free and 
 open to the public. For more information\, contact FGSS Director Jane Juffe
 r at jaj93@cornell.edu.
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SUMMARY:Trans Studies NOW! "We're here\, we're Queer\, Trans\, and Feminist
  in the Academy"
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/trans_studies_now_april_event
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