Telling the Stories of Trans Children for our Freedom

Jules Gill-Peterson is an associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (2018), winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. Jules is also a General Co-Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and a co-host of the Slate podcast Outward. Her research and advocacy for trans women and youth have been featured in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Scientific American, and elsewhere. She is also the narrator of Framing Agnes (dir. Chase Joynt, 2022), an award-winning trans history documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Jules is currently writing a book entitled A Short History of Trans Misogyny, which will be published by Verso.

Abstract

This youth-friendly webinar for all ages will explore some of the amazing stories of children and youth from trans history. What were the lives of trans children like over the past one hundred years? What challenges did they face? And how did they make childhoods and futures for themselves? We can draw great strength from learning that we are not the first generation of trans people to face a hostile world. We walk today with trans kids who came before us.

Date

June 15, 2022

Time

4:00pm to 5:00pm PST

Location

via Zoom

Accessibility

Live ASL Interpretation

Hosted by

SOGI UBC

The University of Arizona Trans Studies Program

Registration closed.