Binding
What if all gender is built of trauma, at least partially? What if negativity is a critical resource for trans flourishing? What if autonomy – in the context of gender transition, but also more broadly – is less about freedom and more about negotiating the ways in which we are bound to what harms us? Building on their work Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad, in this talk, Hil Malatino explores these questions in an effort to parse out what gender ‘affirmation’ can and might mean, especially in transantagonistic social and political worlds.
is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University. He is the author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad, Trans Care, and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience and co-editor of the t4t issue of TSQ and the Care Ethics Otherwise issue of Essays in Philosophy. His essays have appeared in Hypatia, TSQ, Signs, and many other places.
For this lecture, Hil Malatino will be joining TQW Studios via Zoom.
In English
Content note: Discussion of transphobia, transmisogyny, transmisogynoir