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InQueery 20200 DIY Lessons in Freedom: Tracing Histories of Abortion and Transition
October 19, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
InQueery 2022 on Wednesday, October 19 at 4 pm, DIY Lessons in Freedom: Tracing Histories of Abortion and Transition.
2022 InQueery Symposium will feature: Student Panels (4-5:45pm) via Zoom Short Break (5:45-6:00)
Keynote Speaker (6-7pm) Via Zoom Link
Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson is a groundbreaking 20th century historian of transgender medicine who reconstructs the history of the medicalization and racialization of children’s bodies in the U.S. from the 1900s through the 1970s. Her book Histories of the Transgender Child received the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Nonfiction in LGBTQ+ Studies and the 2020 Children’s Literature Association Book Award.
Grounded in archival research from hospitals and clinics as well as scientific and medical literature, it is the first book of its kind uncovering a hidden history of transgender children. Shattering the myth that today’s transgender children are a brand-new generation, Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson shows how modern transgender medicine, as well as the very concept of gender itself, depend upon the invisible medicalization of trans and intersex children’s presumed biological plasticity. Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson is an Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.
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