Trans ± Sex Symposium Bios

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tourmaline

TOURMALINE makes film and installed video that highlights the capacity of black queer/trans social life to impact the world while living what is simultaneously an invisible—and hypervisible—existence. The throughline of her filmmaking focuses on everyday people and their mundane creative acts that blur the lines and liens of what constitutes public. 

Her work includes SalaciaMary of Ill FameAtlantic is a Sea of BonesThe Personal ThingsLost in the Music, and Happy Birthday, Marsha! She is also an editor of TRAP DOOR, an anthology on trans cultural production published by the New Museum & MIT Press. 

She received a BA from Columbia University and is the recipient of the 2018 Publishing Triangle Award, Special Mention at 2018 Outfest Film Festival, 2017 HBO & Queer/Art Prize and 2016 Art Matters Foundation Grant. She is a 2016-2017 participant in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace program, and a 2012-2013 Queer/Art/Mentorship fellow. From 2014-2018 she was Barnard College Research On Women’s activist in resident. 

Her work has been presented across the world including at the Museum of Modern Art (2019), the Brooklyn Museum (2016, 2019), MoMA PS1 (2019), The Kitchen (2018), BFI Flare (2018), Portland Art Museum (2018), BAM Cinematek (2018), The New Museum (2017), The Whitney Museum (2017), MOCA LA (2017), the Studio Museum in Harlem (2017), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2017). 

 


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maza

 

A DE LA MAZA PÉREZ TAMAYO is a national postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sonora in northern Mexico. He earned a doctoral degree in Justice Studies, with a concentration in Women and Gender Studies, from Arizona State University. His research focuses broadly on the conditions of possibility and processes through which certain non-normative sexual and gendered configurations are conditionally incorporated into the national imaginary and the strategic exclusions that make these inclusions possible in Mexico. 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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gill peterson

JULES GILL-PETERSON researches and teaches in transgender studies, queer studies, critical race theory, childhood studies, and the medical humanities. Their book, Histories of the Transgender Child, will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in Fall 2018. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters the widespread myth that transgender children have only existed for the past few years, uncovering their widespread medicalization during the twentieth century. Through a trans of color critique of medicine, it contextualizes the history of transgender children within the whiteness of gender’s plasticity and its corollary exclusion of black and trans of color children from the medical model. 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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cece mcdonald

CECE MCDONALD is an activist, speaker and icon in the LGBTQ community. Rising to international recognition after surviving a white supremacist & transphobic attack, CeCe has graced stages across the country where she uses storytelling to articulate the personal and political implications of being both black & trans. Now, one of the founders of the Black Excellence Collective and Black Excellence Tour, created with best friend Joshua Allen and solo engagements. She fosters important conversations around mass incarceration, sexuality & violence and is the star of the recently released feature length documentary about her life & story, Free Cece! 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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gale

GAYLE SALAMON is Professor of English and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Her research interests include phenomenology, feminist philosophy, queer and transgender theory, contemporary Continental philosophy, and disability studies. She is the author of Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (Columbia University Press, 2010) winner of the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. Her most recent book The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia (NYU Press, 2018). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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rizki

COLE RIZKI is a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University with a focus in Latin American transgender studies. His current research examines the entanglements of transgender cultural production and activisms with histories of state violence and terror in Latin America’s Southern Cone region. Rizki’s dissertation, State Violence and Transgender Cultural Politics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina, provincializes US-centric histories of state violence, state formation, and identity politics that continue to underwrite the field of trans studies. He is the co-editor of "Trans Studies en las Américas," a special issue of TSQ on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Trans Studies (TSQ 6:2, May 2019). His writing appears in TSQ as well as GLQ

 

 

 

 

 

 


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weil

ABRAHAM WEIL is an assistant professor in the department of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at California State University, Long Beach and is the managing editor for TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press). Weil completed his PhD in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona in 2018 and his Masters at Rutgers University in 2012. His current project Transmolecular Revolution: Trans*versality and the Mattering of Political Life focuses on radical political formations, anti-black racism, trans* theorizing, and continental philosophy in the US and France from the 1960s to the present.