Anthropologist to Speak on Transgender Identities and Activism Oct. 14
The Department of Anthropology will host David Valentine, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, for a reading of his book Imagining Transgender at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, on Zoom.
Valentine will speak to the emergence of the category of transgender in the 1990s and how this term enabled imagining a new calibration of gender and sexuality in order to work towards a more just world, but struggled to secure that just world for the most vulnerable transgender-identified people — young, poor, and people of color.
A cultural and linguistic anthropologist with interests in gender, sexuality, U.S. social movements and politics, and conceptions of the future, Valentine received the Ruth Benedict Prize for Imagining Transgender.
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Ram Natarajan, assistant professor
Department of Anthropology
479-575-2272,
rnataraj@uark.edu
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