Feminist Studies presents Geographies of Dissent — a dialogue centering trans/feminist vernaculars of the geopolitical, and how current histories of occupation and authoritarianism have impacted feminist projects of dissent.

The first 20 students who register for the full day will receive
their choice of one of the speakers’ books.

11am | Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World

Asli Zengin – Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
In Violent Intimacies, Asli Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the ethnographic history of trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality.

12:30 | Lunch provided

1:30pm | Defiant Disrobing and Double Dissent in Feminist Thought

Naminata Diabate – Associate Professor, Cornell University
Naminata Diabate is a scholar of sexuality, race, biopolitics, and postcoloniality, whose research explores African, African American, Caribbean, and Afro-Hispanic literatures, cultures, cinema, and new media. Her book, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa, won the African Studies Association Best Book Award in 2021 and the African Literature First Book Prize in 2022.