Public lecture on April 7, 2016.
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In this talk, Finn Enke puts their graphic novel, With Finn and Wing: Growing Up in a Nuclear Age (in progress), in conversation with transfeminist, queer and disability studies to consider rhetorical agency and the meaning of gender in situations of high (in)security. Enke illuminates children’s efforts to articulate trans-being prior to the vocabulary of transgender alongside more recent efforts to exclude trans bodies from school bathrooms. The purpose is to work the very places where disciplining grammars and diagnostic apparat-uses appear most powerful. Taking to heart Georgina Kleege’s suggestion that we learn to see “at an angle,” and even “see with different parts of the body,” Enke offers a trans-poetic articulation of non-binary being.
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