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Anambar ADITYA CHAUDHURY (LEGS, Paris 8, UQUAM)
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Thamy Ayouch (Pr., IHSS CRPMS, Université de Paris Diderot)
Title: What trans knowledge does to psychoanalysis
Abstract: The medico-legal expertise of transidentites, gender norm variations and challenges is part of a medicalisation process specific to the Western sphere. This process constructs binary bodies and majoritarian identifications in opposition to the racialised and devalued bodies of colonial lands. This colonial cis-hetero-patriarchy is reflected uncritically in many psychoanalytical approaches to transidentities. This paper purports to show how medical, psychiatric, psychological and psychoanalytical institutions do not treat a transidentitarian suffering previous to their intervention, but rather create it, institute it, and contribute to its institutionalization, by manufacturing a category and producing knowledge about it. The dominant psychoanalytical approaches revive this reign of expertise: these privileged statements with statutory presumptions of truth and supra-legality, insist on calling gender to order, and prescribe hegemonic forms of sexuation and sexuality in a clearly colonial cissexism that produces paranoid certainties and performs irreducible gender difference. Transidentitarian identifications and trans knowledge therefore question psychoanalysis on its abstract subject of the unconscious cut off from the political and from gender, sexuality, race and class power relations, and on the gender norms and sexuality deployment that underpins most of its theories. They remind psychoanalysis that since it clinically, theoretically and epistemologically aims to deconstruct, historicise and de-dogmatise any form of knowledge production, it cannot exempt its own perspective from this critical analysis.
Short biography: Thamy Ayouch is a Psychoanalyst, and Full Professor (Professeur des Universités) at the Université Paris Cité. He was “Professor Visitante Estrangeiro” (Visiting Professor) at the Universidade de São Paulo. He wrote numerous articles and books in French, Portuguese, Spanish and English. His research deals with post-colonial, decolonial, critical race, Gender, Queer and Feminist Studies (anthropology of contemporaneity); transidentities and psychoanalysis (trans subjectivations, social, clinical and theoretical abuse of trans people); Michel Foucault and psychoanalysis (politics of the sexual and discourse analysis); gender violence and vulnerability; psychoanalytic clinical experience of languages and migration (othering, linguistic and psychic translation).
Yael Armangau (Université Toulouse 2, LISST/Cers)
Title: Forms of social solidarity in French-speaking trans Facebook groups
Abstract: This paper describes the forms of social support within trans Facebook groups, using a combined method (survey and lexical analysis) to identify (1) the main uses of these groups and their variations and (2) the themes of the exchanges. Digital social networks allow to create new forms of social solidarity and to collectively resist the French “therapeutic shield”.
Short biography: Ph.D candidate in sociology at Toulouse 2 University in the LISST/Cers laboratory, co-founder of the Junior Laboratory in LGBTI studies and trans feminist activist. My thesis work focuses on trans people support networks, using both sociology of relational networks and sociology of the digital.
Alexandre BARIL (Université d’Ottawa)
Title in English: “Please Save Me from the People Trying to Save Me!” When Suicide Prevention Exacerbates the Suicidal Distress of Trans People
Abstract in English: The majority of suicidal people, including trans people, do not reach out to prevention services. This presentation explains this failure of prevention through the theoretical framework of suicidism (the oppression of suicidal people). Through a suicidist script based on protecting life at all costs, we exercise systemic violence towards these individuals. The preventionist script does more harm than good, especially for marginalized groups such as trans people living at the intersection of multiple oppressions. I show how the preventionist logic represents “cruel optimism” because the help offered often increases the structural violence experienced by marginalized groups, such as cisgenderism. Drawing on trans-affirmative approaches, I propose a queercrip model of suicide and a suicide-affirmative approach that allows for genuine accompaniment of suicidal individuals.
Short biography: Alexandre Baril (PhD, Feminist and Gender Studies) is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa. His work, carried out from an intersectional perspective, is situated at the crossroads of gender, queer, trans, disability/crip/Mad studies, critical gerontology and critical suicidology. His book, entitled Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide (Temple University Press), will be released in spring 2023. His passion and commitment to equity have earned him several awards for his involvement in queer, trans and disabled communities, including the Canadian Disability Studies Association Tanis Doe Francophone Award (2020) for his research, teaching and activism on disability, as well as the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion President’s Award at the University of Ottawa (2021). A prolific author, he has given over 175 presentations and has over 75 publications in a wide variety of journals.
Emmanuel BEAUBATIE (CNRS, CESSP)
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Sara CESARO (LEGS, Paris 8, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
Short biography: Sara Cesaro is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Gender Studies at Université Paris 8. She is currently a graduate assistant in Sociology at Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès. Her work focuses on the (re)configurations of support practices towards queer asylum seekers. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, she questions the social conditions of production and maintenance of an expertise understood as specific, based on repertoires of action and work skills drawing on the sexual careers of volunteers. She is interested in the production of domination effects in support relationships, despite the effort to create a working space inspired by the principles of representative bureaucracy and contractualisation.
Malek CHEIKH (Rédacteur en chef de la revue Assiégé.e.s et chercheur indépendant)
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Beatriz COLLANTES (LEGS, Université Paris 8)
Short biography: Beatriz Collantes Sanchez, Lecturer at the UFR Law and Political Science at the University of Paris Nanterre since 2012 where I develop almost all of my activity as a teacher in the French Law Diploma – Spanish Law And Latin America Law. Committed transfeminist, I joined the Gender and Sexuality Studies Laboratory in 2021 where I develop my research on fatphobia, the transx issue and LGBTIQ families.
Agnès CONDAT (Pédopsychiatre psychanalyste, Pitié-Salpêtrière-Charles-Foix)
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Max CRESCENT (RITA Grenoble)
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Paisley CURRAH (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Title: Sex Is as Sex Does: Trans Studies After Identity Politics
Abstract: What happens if we change the protagonist of trans studies? What if we let go of the project of determining the meaning of sex and instead focus on what the category does for governments. Conceiving of “sex” as simply the effect of a decision backed by the force of law, this paper examines policy in the United States: what does “sex” do on our driver’s licenses, in how we play sports, in how we access health care, or in determining the bathroom we can use? Why do prisons have very different rules than social service agencies? Why is there such resistance to people changing their sex designation? Or to dropping it from identity documents altogether?
Short biography: Paisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Currah has written widely on transgender issues, including on topics such as discrimination, sex reclassification, and the transgender rights movement. He is the co-founder of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and the author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (2022).
Charlie FABRE (Chercheur en études trans, Représentrans)
Title: Issues of media representations: intimate and political
Abstract: During this intervention, the starting principle will be that representation is not an end in itself — and should not be. What is at stake? How representations impact us, trans persons; how they impact our relatives; our relationships and our intimacies. What they produce at a social level, their impact on the public opinion, on politics… We will talk about the importance of representations through their concrete, daily effects.
Short biography: Charlie Fabre is a trans activist for the rights of LGBTIAQ+ people and against sexual violences. He volunteers in Lyon in associations related to these topics. His works on trans representations started with the redaction of his Master thesis about cis gaze in cinema. He then co-founded the association Représentrans in 2020. He is particularly interested by the effects of media representations on the lives of trans persons.
Michaëla DANJE (Co-fondatrice du collectif Cases Rebelles)
Title: Epistemological and historiographical Afrotrans inquiry
Abstract: The crisscrossing of archives, the excavation of popular histories as well as present African and Afrodiasporic realities allow and require the extraction of transidentitarian grammars with globalizing pretensions. From these multiple perspectives, an attempt to welcome heterogeneous and tumultuous proposals for other transidentities and the epistemological decolonization’s that are necessary.
Short biography: Co-founder and member of the collective Cases Rebelles, Michaëla Danjé is an independent researcher, documentarian, writer, musician and editor. Her favorite subjects are state violence, visual studies, Caribbean and African literature, and Afro-anarchism. She edited the collective work AfroTrans (2021), the first book published by Cases Rebelles. At CR, she co-directed the documentary « Dire à Lamine » (2018), co-translated the first French edition of Assata Shakur’s « L’Autobiographie » (2018), and co-written the book « 100 Portraits Against the Police State » (2017), among others.
Karine ESPINEIRA (Legs, Université Paris 8)
Short biography: Karine Espineira is a French-Chilean sociologist of media. She is a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis) and an associate member of the Laboratory of Gender and Sexuality Studies (LEGS, University of Paris 8). She was awarded with research medal in 2014 (UNICE), and is a laureate of the Grand Prix du Conseil québécois LGBT, recognizing one’s contribution to the promotion and defense of LGBT rights on the international scene (2019). She wrote, among other books: Transidentités : Ordre & panique de Genre : Le réel et ses interprétations et Médiacultures : La transidentité en télévision. Une recherche menée sur un corpus de l’INA (1946-2010) (L’Harmattan, 2015) ; Transidentités et transitudes Se défaire des idées reçues (with Maud-Yeuse Thomas, Le Cavalier Bleu, 2022).
Eric FASSIN (Legs, Université Paris 8)
Title: An Epidemic of Transphobia
Abstract: There is today, in many countries, a real epidemic of transphobia. Of course, the pathologization of trans people has existed for a long time; but it is currently presented, in reactionary discourse, as a social pathology: the trans question allegedly threatens the sexual and social order. We even hear talk of a “transgender epidemic”.
Transphobia is thus a political issue that affects, of course, first and foremost, trans people, whose rights, bodies and lives are threatened, but it also concerns everyone. This is the new international rhetoric at the center of the sexist and homophobic attacks against the supposed “gender ideology”: what is at stake is sexual democracy, and therefore democracy. It is in this context that it is important to internationalize the circulations between gender studies and trans knowledge.
Short biography: Éric Fassin is a professor of sociology at Paris 8 University with a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Gender Studies, and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is affiliated with the first research center in gender studies in France, created in 2015, LEGS (CNRS/Paris-8/Paris-Nanterre). His research focuses on contemporary sexual and racial politics with a comparative, transnational perspective. Public interventions related to his scholarly work have long been part of his political work as a “sociologue engagé”.
Ruby FAURE (Legs, Paris 8)
Title: Queer/Trans: Family Histories. Affinities and frictions between queer and trans epistemologies in US academic places since the 1990s.
Abstract: The genealogy of family histories between queer and trans epistemology in the United States allows us to identify several periods: affinities and solidarities in their emergence in the 1990s, frictions and ruptures in the 2000s, confrontations and alliances more recently. These political and intellectual histories are linked to the internal power struggles in academic spaces, to the evolution of social movements, as well as to the changes of political contexts. At the conceptual level, many elements of productive conflictuality can be identified: the relationship to sexual and gender normativities, the constructed / performative and the gender ‘reality’, as well as the the issue of bodies materiality and their medicalization.
Short biography: Ruby Faure is Ph.D candidate in Philosophy at LEGS (Paris 8), under the supervision of Marie-Dominique Garnier and Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc. Their research is on the colonial genealogy of European sexual categories between 1869 and 1912. Since two years, they teach a Queer and Trans studies seminar in Paris 8, in the Gender Studies department.
Joao GABRIEL (Johns Hopkins Department of History)
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Siobhan GUERRERO (CEIICH, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Title: On the urgency of decolonizing transness
Abstract: In the last five years a global wave of transphobia has radically modified both academic spaces and disciplines such as gender or LGBT studies, on the one hand, and political activism and public policies, on the other. In this talk I show how the colonial legacies of the last five centuries played a role in the globalization of hatred. If this is so, then the tools of the decolonial turn in latinamerican thought might help us to understand and resist this wave of trans exclusion.
Short biography: Siobhan Guerrero studied biology at the Faculty of Sciences at UNAM and holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Philosophy of Science also from UNAM. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Humanities (CEIICH-UNAM). Her areas of expertise are (i) gender and science studies, (ii) philosophy of biology, (iii) transfeminism and, (iv) philosophy of the subject. In 2018 she was awarded with the « Distinción Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos » and in 2020 with the « Premio de Investigación » in the area of humanities granted by the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias.
Laurence HERAULT (Pr. Anthropologie, Aix-Marseille Université, IDEMEC)
Short biography: Laurence Hérault is anthropologist and professor at Aix-Marseille University. She is member of the Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC, UMR 7307). Her research focused on subjective experiences linked to the transition and the social production of transness. She successively developed her studies on the transition as a collectively achieved individual project investigating the conception and medical management of trans trajectories, the legal framework surrounding the transition, as well as reproduction and transgender kinship. She edited, in particular, the collective book La parenté transgenre in 2014 and several articles on the reception of trans people in reproductive medicine services and on the preservation of their fertility. More recently, she coordinated the multidisciplinary research program « Etat civil de demain et transidentité » (Ministry of Justice) and co-edited with J. Courduriès and C. Dourlens, the book État civil et transidentité (2021).
Gab HARRIVELLE (Consultant en représentations trans, co-fondateur de l’association Représentrans)
Short biography: Gab Harrivelle is a consultant in trans representations. He has collaborated on series such as La Faute à Rousseau, Skam France, Plus Belle La Vie, Les Engagés. He also co-founded the association Représentrans which works for better representations of transgender people in the French audiovisual and performing arts. The first action of the association was to create a directory of trans and non-binary actors. This directory now includes audiovisual and performing arts technicians. It counts more than 160 artists, actors, technicians, etc.
stc019 (Scotty H.) (Artiste-auteur BD)
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Caroline IBOS (Pr., directrice du LEGS, Université Paris 8)
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Laurier The Fox (Illustrateur-Bédéiste)
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June LUCAS (Juriste, Acceptess-T)
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Clovis MAILLET (Médiéviste, correspondant EHESS)
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Marika MOISSEEFF (CNRS-Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale)
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Joyita MONDAL (Juge au tribunal du Bengale)
Title: Journey of me as first trans-woman, Fast Trangender Lok Adalot Member judge of India
Abstract: Joyita Mondal shares her journey to becoming the first transwoman judge in Bengal, as well as her efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable.
Short biography: Joyita Mondal is the first Bengali trans woman who was a member of a judicial panel of a civil court and a social worker from West Bengal, India. She’s a member of the transgender community of West Bengal and works for the welfare and development of the community. In 2015, Mondal was involved with others in setting up a home for older people who were HIV positive and forming patients’ welfare committees On July 8, 2017, at 29-year-old, she became the first transgender judge of a Lok Adalat from West Bengal. She attended office as judge of a Lok Adalat at Islampur in the North Dinajpur, where some of her first cases involved the recovery of loans made by banks.
Clément MOREAU (Psychologue clinicien, et coordinateur du pôle Santé Mentale de l’association Espace Santé Trans)
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Nur NOUKHKHALY (Centre Max Weber. Ecole normale supérieur de Lyon)
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Loé PETIT (Legs, Université Paris 8)
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Tom REUCHER (Psychologue clinicien)
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Ricardo ROBLES (Legs, Université Paris 8)
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Lee ROZADA (Chercheur indépendant en paléontologie)
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Eliot SEVRICOURT (Psychologue transféministe, Centre LGBTI de Normandie)
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Sandy STONE
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Short biography: Allucquére Rosanne « Sandy » Stone is an American academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist. She is currently Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Concurrently she is Wolfgang Kohler Professor of Media and Performance at the European Graduate School EGS, senior artist at the Banff Centre, and Humanities Research Institute Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Stone has worked in and written about film, music, experimental neurology, writing, engineering, and computer programming. Stone is transgender and is considered a founder of the academic discipline of transgender studies. She has been profiled in ArtForum, Wired, Mondo 2000, and other publications, and been interviewed for documentaries like Traceroute.
Susan STRYKER (Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona)
Title: A Common Groundlessness: Transphobic Feminism, Gender Ideology, Transfeminist Critique
Abstract: In this lecture, I rehearse the emergence of a specifically transphobic discourse in Anglophone feminism in early 1970s, and trace how this discourse has been taken up globally by far-right, ethnonationalist, and reactionary religious constituencies over the past quarter-century–most virulently in the past decade. I pay attention to how both anti-trans feminists and transfeminists sometimes make similar arguments to suggest that, although we seem to be at an irresolvable impasse with no common ground, there are opportunities to seek a « common groundlessness » that dissolves and recasts hardened and polarized positions.
Short biography: Susan Stryker, Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, is founding executive editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, and co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. Since retiring from UofA, she has been Presidential Fellow and Visiting Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University (2019-2020), Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership, Mills College (2020-2022), and Marta Sutton Weeks External Faculty Fellow, Stanford University Humanities Institute, 2022-23. She continues to serve as executive editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and as co-editor of the Duke University Press book series ASTERISK: gender, trans-, and all that comes after. She is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (2008, 2017), co-editor of the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader (2006, 2013) and The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (2022).
Maud-Yeuse THOMAS (Université du Lointemps, Ar Fouillez, Armorig)
Title: On gender fluidity in anthropology
Abstract: In accordance with the thinking of the medievalist Clovis Maillet, the preferred approach is that of putting into perspective the fluidity of genres in history and in comparative anthropology. We propose to shed light on the contours of this fluidity and the context that makes it disappear and re-emerge. We will examine what transidentity is in its relation to cisgender society and identity.
Short biography: Maud Yeuse Thomas is an independent researcher. She co-founded the Observatoire des Transidentités (ODT) with Karine Espineira and is co-editor of the journal Cahiers de la transidentité (2012-2016). Her research focuses on trans life experiences from a socio-anthropological perspective. She is the author, among other books, of Transidentités et transitudes Se défaire des idées reçues (with Karine Espineira, Le Cavalier Bleu, 2022) and has co-ordinated the six books of the Cahiers de la Transidentité on the theme of the trans question in contemporary societies.
Rosalind D’ALMEIDA et Anna BALSAMO – XY MEDIA
Title : XY Media, the first audiovisual transfeminist media in France, from representation to representing oneself
Short biography: Rosalind D’almeida is a transfeminist member of XY media who participated in the second video about being trans and black and is part of the editorial team and speaks on behalf of the media. Her feminism is essentially defined as transfeminist materialist and anti-capitalist with an emphasis on black feminist theories.
Anna Balsamo is an activist, independent researcher, trainer and co-founder of XY Media. She is also the co-founder of a self-help network « support transfem » and the collective bearing the same name.
XY Media is the first trans feminist audiovisual media in France, founded by trans women. Our team is made up of trans people who work in the audiovisual sector, are journalists or are activists in the associative field.
Website: https://www.xymedia.fr/
