Veranstaltung:  ‘Anti-gender’ politics as “reality enforcement” and cisgender performativity | Anna Carastathis (Athens)

The Leibniz ScienceCampus, the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, and Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings are pleased to invite all colleagues and students to an open discussion and exchange with: Dr Anna Carastathis - a political theorist and co-director of the Athens-based Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research and senior researcher on the RESIST project: Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics.

She is the author of Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons (University of Nebraska Press, 2016) and co-author of Reproducing Refugees: Photographìa of a Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020). She is also co supervisor of the LSC doctoral researcher Vita Zelenska.

Join us in Room 017 at IOS / Graduate school on Tuesday 27 January at 09:30 for a discussion with Anna Carastathis on ‘anti-gender’ politics as a project of “reality enforcement” that seeks to eliminate gender and sexual self-determination by reasserting ‘sex’ as a fixed, natural order. We will explore how opposition to ‘gender ideology’ and ‘wokeness’ crosses the political spectrum; it is not restricted to the far right and is institutionalised in laws that naturalise the binary gender system, the assignment of gender at birth, and coerced reproduction.

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