Decolonial Intersex Interventions: South African Refusals of Colonial Fallacies and Scientific Racism
Time: April 18, 2024, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Location: 114 Bird Library with virtual option
Amanda Lock Swarr (University of Washington)
Since the 1990s, histories of racialized intersex have inspired decolonial collective actions by intersex South Africans that are not widely known. This talk centers on these activists’ strategies for inciting policy and protocol changes and their articulations of new decolonial visions of gender. Following the presentation based on Swarr's timely book, Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine (Duke University Press, 2023), participants are invited to engage in Q&A with a reception to follow.
CART will be provided. Please contact PJ DiPietro by April 12 if you have other accessibility accommodation requests.
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Additional supporters:
- African American Studies
- Anthropology
- Community Folk Art Center
- Democratizing Knowledge Collective
- LGBTQ Resource Center
- Maxwell African Scholars Union
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Syracuse University Humanities Center