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Thinking Trans Draft Schedule
Thinking Trans Draft Schedule
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
All times listed according to Central time zone
Friday, October 23
9 AM Analytic Trans Philosophy
11 AM State Violence, Imperial Expansion, and Trans Political
Theory
2 PM Workshop with Imara Jones
4 PM Trans Embodiment and Public Life
7 PM Plenary Panel on Lineages of Trans Thinking, featuring
Ash Williams, Eli Clare, PJ DiPietro, and Talia Bettcher
Saturday, October 24
9 AM Trans Representation in Media and Aesthetic Practice
11 AM Revisiting the Coloniality of Gender
2 PM Trans Terminologies, Methodologies, & Epistemologies
4 PM Trans Cultural Production, Commodification, and Visual
Culture
7 PM Keynote Address: Cameron Awkward-Rich
Daily Panel Details
“Reclaiming Who the Fuck We Are”: Trans of Color Genealogies and the
Medical Industrial Complex
▪ The Eradication of Two-Spirit Medicines and Indian Boarding Schools
Brooklyn Leonhardt (they/them), Pennsylvania State University
▪ Sylvia Rivera and the Long Fight against Carceral Medicine
Andrea Pitts (they/them), University of North Carolina, Charlotte
▪ tRacing Face: Facial Feminization Surgery and a Racial Genealogy of Beauty
Tamsin Kimoto (they/them), Goucher College
Trans Literatures and Theories
▪ Trans Dalit Ontology
Aqdas Aftab (they/them), University of Maryland, College Park
▪ “Living as Divine Sweetness”: The Political Demands of Trans Indigenous
Love Poems
Kai Pyle (they/them), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
▪ Trans Humor
Amy Marvin (she/her), Independent Scholar
Trans Life, Labor, and Institutional Policies
▪ Problematizing Trans Inclusion
Perry Zurn (he/him), American University
▪ Trans Labor Politics in Argentina
Elián Leobino (he/him), University of Buenos Aires
▪ The Bostock Decision: Analysis and Critique
Loren Canon (he/him), Humboldt State University
Transphobia and Cisnormativity
▪ Brides of Frankenstein: Transmasculinity, T-Theology, and the New TERFism
Max Thornton (he/him), Drew University
▪ Divesting Sex: Removing Biological Essentialist Standards from Law
A. Cody Kuhn (he/him), University of Texas, Austin
▪ Toward a Critique of Trans Developmental Psychology
April Taylor Clark (she/her), University of Waterloo
Analytic Trans Philosophy
▪ Conceptual Engineering for Trans Identities
Matthew J. Cull (they/them), University of Sheffield
▪ Varieties of Misgendering: A Philosophical Account of Deadnaming
Rory T. Wilson (he/him), University of Sheffield
▪ Rock-bottom Reality, C.S. Pierce, and the Phenomenology of Gender
Alex Gruenewald (they/he), University of Waterloo
State Violence, Imperial Expansion, and Trans Political Theory
▪ Trans* NecroPolicing: Necropolitical Implications of the “Preventative and
Compulsory Social Isolation” for the Trans* Community in Buenos Aires
Francis J. Fabre (he/him), University of Buenos Aires
▪ Realizing Abolition Now
Jaden Janak (they/them), University of Texas, Austin
▪ Genocide/Symbolic Annihilation, Cultural Appropriation/Racial Analogy,
and Essentialism/Anti-Intersectionality: White Nationalism in Trans-
Exclusionary Radical Feminism
Peter Cava (they/them), Louisiana State University
Workshop with Imara Jones
TBD