Office for Gender Equity Presents
Towards an Antiauthoritarian Transfeminism
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Lecture by June Amelia Rose
Trans activist and consultant June Amelia Rose discusses an argument for the place of transgender liberation in the larger context of the broad, sprawling, and contradictory feminist movement.While many today would like to fondly remember the feminist movement as a progression from point A to point B, the reality is that feminism was a heavily fractured and destitute movement composed of vastly different interpretations of what equality meant, how it could be achieved, and who deserved it.
With the invocation of the phrase “Lavender Menace” in 1969 by Betty Friedan, describing the “threat” the lesbian-feminist contingent posed to the feminist movement, second-wave feminism splintered off into different directions. This eventually led to the infamous schism in feminism known as the “Feminist Porn Wars” or “Feminist Sex Wars” of the ’70s and ’80s, which still exist in some forms today.
In her talk, Rose argues that the trans movement’s core principles of bodily autonomy and the freedom of self-definition are intertwined throughout the antiregulation, prosexuality, pro-bodily-autonomy side of this fight, an identification that is well documented.
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Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema