188 P -
Queering Belongings
Saturday, June 3, 2017: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
BRESL 106 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Matt Richardson, University of Texas at Austin
Session Abstract
This panels focuses on the complex, multi-faceted forms of queer belonging. One study analyzes how a relationship between an FtM transperson and a lesbian femme shapes and affects their interactions within trans, gay and queer spaces, raising important questions about performativity, identity, and queer thought. The second study explores the troubled history of the relationship between butch bodies and feminism. The third study examines encounters between the law and individuals who crossed gender borders in the mid-nineteenth century, using primary documents not only to show how transgender practices became associated with criminality, but also to show how those engaged in transgender practices employed legal strategies to challenge oppressive policing practices and assert their right to cross gender borders. The fourth study uses oral history testimonies to reveal the ways in which coming out as transgender in smaller communities across the Midwest has presented a specific set of challenges for some transgendered people. Through interviews with more than a dozen transgender Midwesterners, those challenges such as overcoming gender binaries and discrimination and finding community, education, and support are discussed.
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