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The anxiety surrounding sex seems to be reaching unprecedented heights by the minute. While the paranoid discourse surrounding Imane Khelif’s participation in the Olympics still reverberates, ‘gender-critics’ around the world are finding a new feminist icon in Trump’s declaration “that there are only two genders.” But as Juliana Gleeson shows in Hermaphrodite Logic, neither the anxious impulse to create and maintain sexual polarity nor forms of resistance to it are new.
In her debut book, Gleeson traces how the intersex movement has challenged the violent management of the sexual order. These struggles affect us all; understanding the birth of the intersex movement in the 1990s is necessary to grasp what sex will become in the rest of the 21st century.
Gleeson will read excerpts from the book and talk to Liola Mattheis (ZfL) about edgy 90s internet activism, limits of sex’s plasticity, its expressiveness, hermaphrodite literary strategies, and sexual politics after the (German) elections.
Information on participating / attending:
Admission is free, and no registration is required.
The building is accessible by wheelchair using a ramp. The event space is located on the ground floor, there are no steps. The entrance doors open electrically after ringing the bell, the doors to the event space are either already open or have to be opened manually. Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are reachable by elevator in the basement and on the second floor; keys are available on site upon request.
If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact the secretary’s office, sekretariat@zfl-berlin.org, +49 (0)30 20 192 - 155.
Date:
07/02/2025 19:00 - 07/02/2025
Event venue:
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Eberhard-Lämmert-Saal, entrance Meierottostr. 8
10719 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Language / literature, Philosophy / ethics, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
05/21/2025
Sender/author:
Georgia Lummert
Department:
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event79365
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