Lectures
Thursday 10 October 2024

What does it mean to be a (trans) woman?

What does it mean to be a (trans) woman?
photo: Katie Rainbow

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Bibliotheek Neude
Neude 11
3512 AE Utrecht View location
Regulier
free

The bestselling book Detransition, Baby was called ‘perhaps the first great trans realist novel’ by The Guardian. It exposes the dreams and sometimes harsh realities of the trans community. One character has an urgent desire to have children, another decides to reverse his transition because he finds life as a trans woman too difficult. Gender scholar Dr Lieks Hettinga (LEI) on the binary logic surrounding (de) transition and contemporary attacks on trans womanhood.

(This lecture is moved from 24 September 2024 to 10 October 2024)

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