Femme Power Hour: A POC Trans, Non-binary, & Demi Femme Grad Student Kiki

"Feminine power" is redundant!

Join Denise! Denise! Ph.D. for another trans anti-pro-sem (anti-professional seminar): Femme Power Hour! A 90-minute virtual kiki for trans, non-binary, and demi femmes of color in graduate school on harnessing our individual and collective femme power to thrive and resist. In this workshop, we'll identify the ways (racialized) femmephobia shows up in higher education, especially in seemingly feminist, queer, and even trans- and (cis) woman-led spaces. We'll also work together to devise strategies to contend with the white elitist cis-het-masculinist norms that govern every aspect of academic life.

Facilitator Bio: Denise! Denise! Ph.D. (they/she) is a proud mixed-Black fat queer non-binary femme with invisible disabilities. Denise is a former tenured liberal arts sociology & gender + sexuality studies professor, having co-authored anthologies and recently . They founded Sociologists for Trans Justice in 2016, which they co-led until 2018. It took a suicide attempt in 2021 to finally leave a deeply cissexist, white supremacist liberal arts college in Richmond, Virginia. She is now a full-time soloproneur as an academic justice consultant and anti-racist trans liberation consultant. http://thehouseofdenise.com

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