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. 

Join the Zoom meeting.