Trans Negativity Symposium

The Trans Negativity symposium gathers scholars and artists who take seriously the bleak, dissociative, and even hopeless dimensions of trans experience, to deepen our collective capacity to think and feel through the impasses of the present.

Drawing on debates that have shaped queer theory for over two decades, this symposium joins and presents ongoing conversations that critically reconsider trans negativity’s potentialities and limitations.

With talks and conversations by
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Mel Y. Chen
Julian Kamilah Kevon Glover
Jack Halberstam
Eva Hayward
Ava Kim
Hil Malatino
Salar Mameni
Grace Lavery
Eric Stanley
Roshanak Kheshti
Leila Weefur
And many more!
Under the current and recurring conditions, our gathering will serve as a coming together in support of each other as trans & queer people and scholars. Please join us!

Register now to receive updates and details on the event locations and program.
The Trans Negativity symposium is organized by Be Schierenberg & Simon(e) van Saarloos

The Trans Negativity symposium is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture (CSSC), the Center for Race and Gender, the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI), the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and UC Berkeley's Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Trans Student Wellness Initiative (TSWI), The Big C, and the Departments of Rhetoric, German, and English.