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SUMMARY:Junior Faculty Series: Kadji Amin
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a seminar with Kadji Amin\, Associate Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Professor Amin will discuss his new chapter\, “Trans Negative Affect\,” forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect. Please note that this is a closed seminar and an RSVP is required to attend. The chapter will be pre-circulated to those who RSVP for this event. \nRegister for this event here. \nAbstract: \nThis chapter proposes that scholars attend to how negative affect impacts the qualitative experience of trans life. It begins by sketching how negative affect has become discursively soldered to and even constitutive of transness in the US\, from Harry Benjamin’s The Transsexual Phenomenon (1966)\, which depicts transsexuals as uniquely miserable and self-harming\, to the DSM-5 (2013)\, which makes “gender dysphoria” definitional to transness. It proposes that the diagnosis of gender dysphoria and related narratives of trans misery are part of the sociogenesis of trans negative affect. Ultimately\, it forwards disability-informed politics that would depathologize transness and make transition-related medical care free upon demand without subscribing to a narrative that conditions medical care upon the promise of “curing” gender dysphoria. The conclusion outlines how scholars might acknowledge bad feelings as central to trans life – the very stuff out of which trans genders are made. \nThis seminar is co-sponsored by UCLA Gender Studies and UCLA Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, & Queer Studies. \nKadji Amin is Associate Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. He is the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in “Sex” from the University of Pennsylvania and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship from Stony Brook University. Amin’s research focuses on the disorienting effects of the queer and transgender past on politicized fields of scholarship. His first book\, Disturbing Attachments: Genet\, Modern Pederasty\, and Queer History (Duke 2017) won an Honorable Mention for best book in LGBT studies form the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. He is currently at work on a second book project\, Trans Materialism without Gender Identity\, that critiques gender identity as a midcentury psychiatric construct that has done transgender people more harm than good and responds by envisioning a materialist trans politics and theory without gender identity. He is the coeditor\, with Amber Jamilla Musser and Roy Pérez\, of a special issue of ASAP/Journal on “Queer Form.” Dr. Amin serves on the Editorial Board for TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and is the State of the Field Review Editor for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Elemental Cartographies in an Era of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA’s Asian American Studies\, Center for the Study of Women (CSW)\, UCLA Departments of English and the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) for “Elemental Cartographies: Mapping Winds in Indigenous Economies of Abundance in an Era of Climate Change\,” featuring Candace Fujikane\, Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i. \nAs we bear witness to the wastelanding of the earth by late liberal capital\, Kānaka Maoli are recovering ancestral knowledges encoded in oli (chants) and moʻolelo (storied history) to activate the elements and transform the effects of global climate change into possibilities for renewed abundance. In this talk\, Candace Fujikane begins with arguments from her recent book\, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi\, contending that global climate change events are not apocalyptic but rather are bringing about the demise of capitalist economies of scarcity\, making way for Indigenous economies of abundance. She will present a preview of her new book\, Elemental Cartographies for a Changing Earth. Kanaka Maoli identify 400\,000 akua or elemental forms and energies\, including the 300 winds of the island of Kanaloa Kahoʻolawe. From 1941 to 1990\, the US Navy used the island as a bombing target\, with the devastating effect of cracking the water table. In the exhausted cartographies of militarized capital\, only 9% of subsurface lands has been cleared of unexploded ordnance. The PKO practitioners\, however\, have long stood to protect the island\, transforming the symbol of the target into a much more generative image of the piko\, the umbilicus that enables the people to be pili (connected) to the akua\, the kūpuna (ancestors)\, and to the pulapula (the seedling descendants to come). Ancestral archives of elemental cartographies map the winds of Kanaloa Kahoʻolawe\, enabling the greening of the island to attract and birth clouds and to manifest decolonial and abolitionist futures. \nCandace Fujikane is professor of English at the University of Hawai’i. She co-edited with Jonathan Okamura Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai’i (2008). She has recently published Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi (2021). She is a Japanese settler ally who stands for lands and waters in Hawaiʻi and for Hawaiian political independence. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu \n 
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/elemental-cartographies-in-an-era-of-climate-change/
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SUMMARY:Junior Faculty Series: Kadji Amin
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Kadji Amin\, Associate Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Professor Amin will present his new paper\, “Taxonomically Queer?: Sexology and New Queer\, Trans\, and Asexual Identities\,” forthcoming in “The Science of Sex Itself\,” Special Issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. \nRegister here for onsite attendance in Kaplan Hall 193 or online attendance on Zoom. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. \nAbstract: \nCan taxonomy – a scientific method critiqued for its utility within Western imperial projects of racial and species classification – be queered? This talk mines the tensions between the hostility to taxonomy within critical theory and the taxonomical renaissance within contemporary queer\, trans\, and asexual vernacular systems of classification. Contemporary queer uses of taxonomy express a shared utopian vision of combinatorial queerness\, in which sexual\, gender\, and relational liberation occur through a multiplying menu of increasingly fine-grained identity options. The talk examines the untimely echoes between contemporary queer classification systems and German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld’s 1910 taxonomy of “sexual intermediaries\,” which forwards a combinatorially lush kaleidoscope of sexual and gendered possibilities that outflanks even contemporary developments. The goal is to simultaneously challenge the notion that sexology is contrary to queer projects and to consider the consequences of acknowledging sexology as a living inheritance of contemporary queer and trans culture. The conclusion asks how Native and racialized queers might resist the universalizing logics of taxonomy from within. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by UCLA Gender Studies and UCLA Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, & Queer Studies. \nKadji Amin is Associate Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. He is the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in “Sex” from the University of Pennsylvania and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship from Stony Brook University. Amin’s research focuses on the disorienting effects of the queer and transgender past on politicized fields of scholarship. His first book\, Disturbing Attachments: Genet\, Modern Pederasty\, and Queer History (Duke 2017) won an Honorable Mention for best book in LGBT studies form the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. He is currently at work on a second book project\, Trans Materialism without Gender Identity\, that critiques gender identity as a midcentury psychiatric construct that has done transgender people more harm than good and responds by envisioning a materialist trans politics and theory without gender identity. He is the coeditor\, with Amber Jamilla Musser and Roy Pérez\, of a special issue of ASAP/Journal on “Queer Form.” Dr. Amin serves on the Editorial Board for TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and is the State of the Field Review Editor for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
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