Gender and Feminism Reading Group
Set up in January 2018 by Dr Katie Cruz and Jassi Sandhar, the Gender and Feminism Reading Group is open to all University staff and students interested in furthering their reading and discussing selected texts.
2018/2019 Sessions
Session 4: Blackness and Transness (28 March 2019)
This session will be held from 4 PM - 6 PM in Room 3.33, Wills Memorial Building.
- 'Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity' by C Riley Snorton.
- We Got Issues: Toward a Black Trans*/Studies by Treva Ellison, Kai M Green, Matt Richardson & C Riley Snorton
- The Trans*-ness of Blackness, the Blackness of Trans*-ness by Marquis Bey
Session 3: Regulation of Gender (13 February 2019)
This session welcomes a special guest, Professor Davina Cooper from Kings College London, and will be held from 5 PM - 7 PM in Room 1.12, 8-10 Berkeley Square.
- ‘If the state decertified gender, what might happen to its meaning and value?’ by Professor Davina Cooper and Dr Flora Renz
- ‘Sex, Gender and the Trans Debate’ by Treva Ellison, Kai M Green, Matt Richardson & C Riley Snorton
- 'The Trans*-ness of Blackness, the Blackness of Trans*-ness' by Marquis Bey
Session 2: Masculinities and the Brett Kavanaugh hearings (5 December 2018)
- Bird - Welcome to the Men's Club (PDF, 582kB): Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity
- The Brett Kavanaugh case: This is how white male privilege is destroying America
- Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, and the Things Men Do for Other Men
- The “male bonding” of Brett Kavanaugh’s youth had a human cost
Session 1: #MeToo and the Avital Ronell case (24 October 2018)
Further information
Time: Usually 3 - 5 PM, though this is subject to change
Location: Wills Memorial Building
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Gender and Feminism Reading Group Archive
- 2017/2018 Sessions