Reimagining Resistance Through Trans Hermeneutics

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This roundtable session brings together scholars and activists who are committed to conceptualizing and reimagining resistance through critical trans hermeneutics. Representing a diverse range of histories, geographies, religious backgrounds, scholarly and disciplinary expertise, linguistic traditions, and artistic/activist commitments, this roundtable session casts a critical eye on the dominant forms of hermeneutics used in intellectual, theological, academic, critical, and activist conceptualizations of transness to decolonize not only trans studies but also queer and religious studies.

Sub Unit

• General Conference / Revisiting, Reclaiming & Re-imagining: Past, Present, Future 

Moderator

• Sahin Acikgoz, University of California, Riverside

Presenters

• Siobhan M Kelly, Harvard University

• Elyse Ambrose, University of California, Riverside

• Shira Schwartz, University of Michigan

• J Selke, University of California, Riverside

• Kathryn Phillips, Defiance College