“Contagion’s Antonym, or One Hundred Years of Waiting.”
A talk by Jules Gill-Peterson
Trans Youth Now series. Registration required.
Jules Gill-Peterson, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, is a scholar of transgender history and the history of sexuality, focusing on racial histories of sex, gender, and trans embodiment spanning both institutional and vernacular science and medicine.
Gill-Peterson is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), recipient of a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. The book was the first to challenge the myth that transgender children are a new phenomenon in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a century’s worth of medical archival evidence, Histories of the Transgender Child establishes not just that trans children have a verifiable history, but that their presumed gender plasticity was in fact central to the development and racialization of transgender medicine. Gill-Peterson has been featured and written about the histories comprising the book in The New York Times, The Guardian, the Washington Post’s The Lily, and CNN.
About Trans Youth Now:
2023 has seen over 550 anti-trans bills proposed in the United States, aimed at everything from criminalizing gender-affirming care to banning trans people from using public restrooms. This series of lunchtime Zoom talks aims to analyze and decode the ways “transgender” “non-binary” and “child/youth” are constructed in the American socio-political imaginary as well as address the real life impact of oppression and stigmatization on the lives of trans/non-binary young people. Trans Youth Now features high profile thinkers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, legal studies, and public health.
Free and open to the public. Brought to you by the Pembroke Public Health Collaborative. This series is co-sponsored by the Pembroke LGBTQIA+ Thinking Initiative, the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, and the LGBTQ Center.