Film Screening and Panel: "Framing Agnes"

Description

The Sheridan Libraries' Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center and the Baltimore Museum of Art present a screening of the award-winning Framing Agnes (2022) followed by a discussion with director Chase Joynt and scholar of transgender history Jules Gill-Peterson (associate professor of history). Closed captioning will be provided for this screening.

Agnes, the pioneering, pseudonymized, transgender woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel's gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s, has long stood as a figurehead of trans history. Through a collaborative practice of reimagination, an impressive lineup of trans stars take on vividly rendered, impeccably vintage reenactments, bringing to life case files from a 1950s gender clinic and other groundbreaking artifacts of trans health care. Framing Agnes endeavors to widen the frame through which trans history is viewed—one that has remained too narrow to capture the multiplicity of experiences eclipsed by that of Agnes.

This event is part of the Tabb Center's spring 2023 Curating Archives series.