Webinar: Jules Gill-Peterson — Being Street: The Trans Woman of Color as Evidence

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Jules Gill-Peterson -- Being Street: The Trans Woman of Color as Evidence
Thursday, November 4, 2021
11:00am-12:30 pm (PT)

Join Imagining Trans Futures Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster for a talk by Jules Gill-Peterson!

This talk interrogates the idealized separation between medico-scientific knowledge and vernacular trans lived experience as more truthful historical evidence. Focusing on figural and ephemeral poor trans women of color in the 1960s whose lives transpired primarily on the street, who did sex work, and who formed social bonds to address violence as well as transition DIY, Gill-Peterson argues that the authoritative archives of transsexual medicine, social services and the police, and the political reclamation of trans people telling their own stories all participate in the construction of trans women of color’s “experience,” rather than the former serving as its occlusion and the latter its salvation.

Jules Gill-Peterson is an associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of 'Histories of the Transgender Child' (2018, Minnesota Press), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. She also serves as General Co-Editor of 'TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.' Dr. Gill-Peterson is currently at work on a book project entitled 'Gender Underground: A Trans History of DIY.'

The event will be taking place on Zoom and is part of the Imagining Trans Futures Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster, a tri-campus trans studies research cluster at the University of Washington bringing together cross-disciplinary scholars, artists, and leaders in conversation around imagining trans futures and the intersections between critical trans studies and trans knowledge production both inside and outside of the academy.

The talk is free and open to the public and funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. The Zoom link will be shared the morning of the event for those who pre-register. The speaker will share an access copy of the slides and we will be using Zoom's live captioning features unless CART is requested.

Registration required for this live Zoom event: https://bit.ly/Gill-Peterson-Nov4

Please contact Neil Simpkins at nfs...@uw.edu and Ching-In Chen at chi...@uw.edu for questions about the event and accommodations.

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