Denial, Carcerality, Feeling: The Structure of Anti-transgender Politics

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

This talk presents a “social autopsy” of the current backlash against transgender rights in the United States. It traces the move from a politics defined by transphobia to a state of transantagonism, from fear and discomfort with gender diversity, to outrage and social violence against transgender people. This move is defined by four discrete social transitions. Drawing from work by sociologists, philosophers, psychologists and legal theorists, I outline the normative, factual, carcereal and affective aims of today’s anti-gender politics.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Panelists

• Tey Meadow, Columbia University

• Jane Ward, University of California-Santa Barbara

• Joanna Wuest, Stony Brook University

Session Organizer

• Shelley J. Correll, Stanford University