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Trans History

Helen Anne Gibson

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In this seminar, we will pause to reflect on moments in trans history in the United States, informed by the scholarship of C. Riley Snorton in Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (Snorton 2017) and Susan Stryker in Transgender History (Stryker 2008), among other important works. We will further engage gender theory in Marquis Bey’s Black Trans Feminism (Bey 2022), Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a disco ball between us: a theory of Black gay life (Allen 2022), and Judith Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Butler 2024). Complementing this history and theorization of the lived experiences of trans people, students in this seminar will read community history zines like “A Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline: Queering Fat Activist Nationality and Cultural Imperialism” (Cooper 2012) and engage contemporary film such as The Right Girls (Wolfer 2018). Further, students will gain hands-on archival research experience at both the Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv & Bibliothek e.V. and the digital archives of the Stabi Lab of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Works cited: Allen, Jafari S. There’s a disco ball between us: a theory of Black gay life (Durham/London: Duke UP, 2022). Bey, Marquis. Black Trans Feminism (Durham/London: Duke UP, 2022). Butler, Judith, Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2024). Cooper, Charlotte. “A Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline: Queering Fat Activist Nationality and Cultural Imperialism,” Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 61-74. Snorton, C. Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Stryker, Susan. Transgender History (Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008). Wolfer, Timothy, director. The Right Girls (Baltimore: Wolfer Productions, 2018). Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00 14 Termine

Mi, 16.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Helen Gibson