Trans of Color Critique: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Scholarship and the Crises of Our Day

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Please join the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program for a panel discussion on Trans of Color Critique, its relationship to scholarship in women, gender and sexuality studies, and to the multiscalar crises of the present.

• Jian Chen is associate professor in the Departments of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and director of the Asian American Studies Program at Ohio State University. They are the author of Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement (Duke 2019).
• Joao Gabriel is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. His writings on militancy, the politics of the black diaspora, the Carribean, and other topics can be found at joaogabriell.com.
• Jules Gill-Peterson is associate professor of English and gender, sexuality, and women's studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (Minnesota 2018) and is currently writing a history of Trans DIY practices.
• Amber Musser is associate professor of American studies at George Washington University. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU 2014) and Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU 2018) and is working on research on noise.
• C. Riley Snorton is professor of English language and literature at the University of Chicago. He is author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (Minnesota 2014) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (Minnesota 2017) and is working on a project on swamps and editing The Flesh of the Matter: A Hortense Spillers Reader.