Invitation to the online IPW Lecture Trans*humiliation, Gender and Whiteness
Lecturer: Johanna Schuster-Craig (Michigan State University)
Moderation: Karin Liebhart (IPW | University of Vienna)
When: Thursday, 21 October 2021, 17:00
Where: online via Zoom (link please see below)
Abstract:
Frauke Petry, Beatrix von Storch and Alice Weidel manage the queerness of their identities as female conservative politicians in Germany by engaging in a form of performative politics I call trans*humiliation. Trans*humiliation mixes gleeful attempts to humiliate with a rhetorical pedanticism that aims to make sense of the revulsion and confusion produced by visibly queer bodies. This tactic is subordinate to broader strategies of anti-genderism and works against perceiving gender and sexuality as a spectrum. Trans*humiliation is a culturally specific form of transphobia with similarities to the anti-queer politics of the evangelical right-wing in the US.
Zoom access link:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/96323723697?pwd=Z2ZKbEdiRUtudVhjOHlxVjN5Um8rZz09
Meeting-ID: 963 2372 3697
Identification code: 099594
