ROUNDTABLE: "Don’t confine your fashion enjoyment to a gender binary”: Mutual Aid, Queer Theory, and a Gender-Affirming Closet
Abstract
During the Spring 2023 semester, the WGSS 374: Queer Theories and Politics course studied the mutual aid and LGBTQ+ community organizing. Trans studies scholar Dean Spade defines “mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world” (2020). Amidst national attacks on trans youth via anti-trans bills, our course imagined how collective care and mutual aid provide vehicles to “protect trans youth.” This roundtable will offer space to hear our reflections and how we localized queer praxis—theory and action—by organizing a gender-affirming closet and resource event with community partners.
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Campus
Winona
First Advisor/Mentor
Mary Jo Klinker, PhD
Location
Kryzsko Commons, Solarium
Start Date
4-19-2023 10:00 AM
End Date
4-19-2023 10:45 AM
Presentation Type
Panel or Roundtable
Format of Presentation or Performance
In-Person
ROUNDTABLE: "Don’t confine your fashion enjoyment to a gender binary”: Mutual Aid, Queer Theory, and a Gender-Affirming Closet
Kryzsko Commons, Solarium
During the Spring 2023 semester, the WGSS 374: Queer Theories and Politics course studied the mutual aid and LGBTQ+ community organizing. Trans studies scholar Dean Spade defines “mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world” (2020). Amidst national attacks on trans youth via anti-trans bills, our course imagined how collective care and mutual aid provide vehicles to “protect trans youth.” This roundtable will offer space to hear our reflections and how we localized queer praxis—theory and action—by organizing a gender-affirming closet and resource event with community partners.
