Oct 21, 12:30 PM: Human Rights in Practice: Lunch with Eric Stanley on "Becoming ...

Join Eric Stanley, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley, for a discussion of Tourmaline’s 2017 film “The Personal Things.” The film documents Miss Major’s decision to change her identification documents from “M” to “F” then back to “M” as a way of marking herself as, in her words, “a transgender woman.” While surveillance technologies and their metrics expand through and beyond gender’s racial contours, Major’s narrative charts an alternative path of disruption that is not moored to representational coherence. As a fugitive on the run from classical recognition, Major illustrates the fierce strategies necessary to become, as Denise Ferreira da Silva suggests, a “nobody against the state.” By reading the film with theories of anarchism and the legal category of “unruliness” this talk proposes that an anti-state analysis is, and has been, central to the possibility of trans life. Cosponsored by the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. RSVP required at https://form.jotform.com/PozenFamilyCenter/eric-stanley

Date: October 21, 2019
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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