Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC is the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, an award-winning book that was also a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards (Trans-Nonfiction). A therapist and sexuality educator, Fielding is a pathbreaking voice in gender-affirming care. Her work pushes beyond pathologizing diagnoses to focus on trans joy and the liberating potential of “gender-pleasure.”
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:00-9:00pm, Bryan Hall 229-230
Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Culture and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His monographs include Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009) and Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (2021).
Thursday, January 25, 2024, 5:30-7:00pm, Robertson 123
Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and the author of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins, 2018). LaFleur is the co-editor of two collections of essays, including Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Cornell UP, 2021), and the co-editor of three special journal issues, including the recent special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly, "Trans Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right," (2022).
Friday, February 9, 2024, 4:00pm, Minor Hall 125
Hil Malatino is Joyce L. and Douglas S. Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University. He is the author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (Minnesota 2022), Trans Care (Minnesota 2020), and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (Nebraska 2019), and co-editor of the t4t issue of TSQ. He is a Lambda Literary award finalist and recipient of the Leslie Feinberg Award in Trans Literature.
Monday, March 25, 2024, 6:30-8:00pm. The LGBTQ Center, Newcomb Hall 3rd floor