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Racism As A Misandric Aggression, Tommy Curry

Center for Women and Gender Equity Research Seminar Series

Join the Center for Women and Gender Equity for our Research Seminar with Dr. Tommy Curry! Dr. Curry is a professor of philosophy in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, whose research interests are in Africana Philosophy and the Black Radical Tradition. Dr. Curry's presentation will draw from his book chapter on "Racism as a Misandric Aggression," in which he argues for an understanding of racism and dehumanization having primarily male targets, looking at wars and genocides as the basis of this assertion.

Homos, Heteros, Hard Bodies, Oh Myyy: Straight Performance And Queer Interventions In Marvel Comics, Bryan Bove

Center for Women and Gender Equity Research Seminar Series

Join us for our Research Seminar with Bryan Bove, a PhD candidate in the American Culture Studies program and graduate assistant in the CWGE, CVPE, and the Office of Title IX.

Bryan will be presenting a chapter of his dissertation, which explores the intersection of self, society, and queerness-as-illness in comics through the lens of queer/disability studies. Specifically, Bryan will analyze gender performance and queer interventions in Marvel's X-Force series, contextualized in autoethnographic experiences.

Sexing The Scouts, Sarah Rainey-Smithback

Center for Women and Gender Equity Research Seminar Series

Join us for our Research Seminar with Dr. Sarah Rainey Smithback, Associate Professor in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program! In this presentation, Dr. Rainey-Smithback examines how gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation implicitly and explicitly shape the meaning and exercise of citizenship in scouting.

Dr. Rainey-Smithback draws on interviews with scouts, leaders, and parents to show how scouts enact this global vision of citizenship through projects and badges, suggesting that the global citizen embodied by scouts is diverse and often contradictory, sometimes challenging, and other times replicating, nationalist and colonialist …

Theorizing Non-Translation Through The Lens Of Queer Studies, Remy Attig

Center for Women and Gender Equity Research Seminar Series

In this seminar, Dr. Remy Attig, Assistant Professor of Translation Studies & Spanish at BGSU, will discuss “cislation,” a term he proposes to refer to the existence of a text solely within the language and culture whence it emerged, which may be preferred over translation for any number of reasons. Attig will explore some of those motivations and workshop with participants how the notion of cislation might enrich the larger fields of translation studies and queer studies. Dr. Attig’s work draws from postcolonial and queer theories in translation studies, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies to explore activist and social justice movements …