Speakers:
Avery Everhart, Department of Geography, UBC
Jasbir K Puar, Social Justice Institute, UBC
Talk title:
You Can’t Pinkwash a Genocide: Sex/Gender/Fascism
Talk Abstract:
Avery Everhart and Jasbir Puar will discuss their latest research on the centrality of gender and sexuality to the operations of fascism, paying particular attention to how queerphobic and transphobia are working to solidify anti-gender movements in the North America and how pinkwashing and homonationalism have been exhausted as rhetorical strategies during the genocide in Palestine.
Speaker Bios:
Avery Everhart is a transdisciplinary socio-spatial scientist whose work draws from myriad fields to understand the conditions in which trans lives are led, and how we can improve trans people’s life chances. Dr. Everhart is an Assistant Professor of Geography at UBC, and an affiliate member of the Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality & Social Justice. Dr. Everhart teaches courses on geographic information science and conducts collaborative research on trans health and human rights bringing my methodological expertise in geography, and theory from applied trans studies. In addition, Dr. Everhart is a Co-Founder, Distinguished Fellow & Director of Finance at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS). CATS is a non-profit, academic think tank focused on the application of scholarship on and with transgender communities to law, policy and practice. We publish a platinum open-access journal Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies which is free to publish in and free to read.
Jasbir K Puar is a Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, Extraordinary Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and Professor Emerita at Rutgers University where she was faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department for 23 years. Puar is the author of the award-winning books: The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017), which has been translated into Spanish and is forthcoming in Portuguese, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese, and re-issued as an expanded version for its 10th anniversary (2017). Her articles have been published in journals such as Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly, mainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian, and translated into more than 20 languages.
