15/04/2022 | Writer: Kaos GL
“To me, identity is not an innocent description; identity is a regime, a normative regime at that. I want to radically reconfigure what “identity” means”
Kaos GL’s 10th International Feminist Forum will be held under the title “The end of the world as we know it – New Alliances” at 16-17 April.
One of the speakers of the forum is Marquis Bey. Marquis Bey is professor of African American Studies, English, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Critical Theory at Northwestern University. Bey's work focuses on black feminist theory, transgender and nonbinary studies, abolition, and contemporary literature. Bey is the author of the recently published book Black Trans Feminism, and the forthcoming Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender, both published with Duke University Press.
“To me, identity is not an innocent description; identity is a regime, a normative regime at that. I want to radically reconfigure what “identity” means, and this desire is motivated by an understanding of identity as resting on an assumptive coherence, knowability, and nonporousness, all of which are regulated, normative regimes of legibility and stability. This disallows so much that we might be or could have been. Which is one of the reasons why I mobilize, in all realms, abolition: it is because various identities — race, gender, sexuality, etc. — all foreclose what we might have been but for these notions of race, gender, and sexuality. In other words, it is not that one simply is a certain race or gender; those things are impositions, “imposed ontologies,” as Fred Moten would say, and as such they circumscribe us ontologically from the jump. We are not permitted to appear or exist without them; who we could have been is already, from the outset, curtailed.”
Please register to participate.
16 April
18:30-19:10
Opening Speech
Aylime Aslı Demir & Dr. Mühdan Sağlam
19:10-20:20
Olena Shevchenko
Insight LGBTQ NGO from Kyiv Ukraine
Dragana Todorovic
Lesbians for Refugees of EL*C
20:35-21:30
Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy
Ray Acheson
17 April
18:30-19:00
Opening Speech
Trapped in the Wrong Theory
Prof. Dr. Talia Mae Bettcher
19:00-20:10
TERF wars: An introduction
Dr S. Erikainen
20:20- 21:30
Giving an Account of Black Trans Feminist Radicalism
Prof. Dr. Marquis Bey
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