Trans Women and Other Difficult Subjects

Office of Social Innovation at TMU

The Office of Social Innovation launched our new event series titled Transformation Cafes in 2024.

Daphne Cockwell Complex (DCC)

<h3>Transformation Cafe: Trans Women and Other Difficult Subjects: Considering Mad Approaches to Communication</h3> We are excited to announce a new Transformation Café event, Trans Women and Other Difficult Subjects: Considering Mad Approaches to Communication, on February 25th, 11:30am - 1:30pm, featuring Dr. Drew McEwan, a mad trans woman, scholar, poet and Assistant Professor with TMUs School of Disability Studies.What does it mean to be “difficult”? What qualities are being assumed by this term and who are these qualities most often applied to? As both a negative social descriptor (the difficult patient or person) and an artistic aesthetic (the difficult poem or film), difficulty allows us to view and consider intersectional experiences of madness.In this Transformation Cafe, Dr. McEwan will lead us in an exploration of “difficulty” as a category imposed on marginalized subjects. In this time of rising global facism and violence, Dr. McEwan’s research on how the cultural and politically rendered “difficult trans woman” can justify the marginalization, political and social abandonment, and reduction of rights for all queer and trans persons is a crucial perspective.Working with “mad studies” as a critical framework, Dr. McEwan will guide us through a discussion about the term “difficulty” and its impact on everyday lives. We will then explore these ideas from our own experiences through an artistic activity.This on campus lunch time event is free and open to the public. Lunch and ASL interpretation will be provided. We ask that those coming in person wear a face mask when not eating. Surgical masks will be available. <h4>Location + Time</h4>When: Wednesday, February 25th, 11:30 am -1:30 pm, with the event beginning at 12 noonWhere: 288 Church Street, (DCC building), room 707/709Access: ASL interpretation. This is a mask-mandatory event. Please wear a mask when not eating, and we will have surgical masks available. For questions about access, please email eliza.chandler@torontomu.ca <h4>About Transformation Cafes</h4>The Office of Social Innovation launched our new event series titled Transformation Cafes in 2024. These panel events explore our strategic theme: social justice approaches to accessing education and campus space. Transformation cafes are discussions that are open to the TMU community and the public that invite people from different disciplines and communities to engage in dialogue around a common issue.Previous events in this series critiqued inclusion into a normative system and offered different perspectives on safety and security on campus space. Stay tuned for our next Transformation Cafe in May that will center the intersection of disability, death, and access to housing. <h4>Learn More</h4>https://www.torontomu.ca/social-innovation/initiatives/programs/transformationcafes/

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