Trans and Nonbinary Lives

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This panel invites papers that explore the lives of trans and nonbinary people. We aim to center their lived experiences—of both resistance and joy—and foreground the knowledges produced within trans and nonbinary communities, particularly by those situated at the intersections of race, class, coloniality, ability, and migration, across both local and global contexts.
Contributions may include, but are not limited to: investigations into how social structures, institutions, and systems of power shape—and are shaped by—trans and nonbinary lives, forms of resistance; studies that center perspectives from the Global South or the former Soviet Union; papers that critically engage with the global political economy and/or the geopolitics of gender; and explorations of the imaginative and material practices of queer and trans utopias, world-making, and alternative futures.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of Sex and Gender Section / Trans and Nonbinary Lives

Presider

• Cinzia D. Solari, University of Massachusetts Boston

Individual Presentations

• Closets and Classrooms: Cis, Trans, and Nonbinary Queer Youth in Chinese Schools - Frank Yueyang Meng, University of Pennsylvania

• Masculinity from Below: Filipino tomboys in South Korea and Hong Kong and the Construction of Transmasculinity - DONGYOUNG KIM, Boston University

• Fluid Performances: Transgender and Nonbinary Sex Workers In a Gendered Marketplace - Logan Phlox Williams, University at Buffalo

• How Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults Use Agency to Resist Transphobia on Social Media - Anastasia S. Vogt Yuan, Virginia Tech; Robyn Lawson, Virginia Tech

• Boston’s Drag King Renaissance: In-depth Interviews with New England Drag Performers - Skylar Rathvon, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Session Organizer

• Cinzia D. Solari, University of Massachusetts Boston