Feminist Lunch Series: Accounting for Intersex Anti-Trans Policies Ableism and Medical Authority-FR

Event date(s): September 29, 2023
Time(s): 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Category: Fredericton
Location: Fredericton

How do anti-trans policies account for the existence of intersex people yet still claim the sex/gender binary is an immutable fact? They mobilize ableist rhetoric. Orr outlines how this rhetoric further institutionalizes intersex genital mutilation and may be exploited to label parents of intersex children abusive if they challenge medical authority.

Dr. Orr was hired in the Wendy J. Robbins Professorship in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of New Brunswick in 2023. They are also appointed to the Sociology department. Their recently published book, Cripping Intersex (UBC Press, 2022), investigates how intersex and interphobia intersect with disability and ableism to propose a new field – crip intersex studies – and argues for a crip approach to intersex activism and scholarship. Their current SSHRC-supported project is to understand the ways queer people anticipate violence from outside and within the queer community and the embodied impacts of said anticipation.

Building: Harriet Irving Library Innovation Hub, Room 316

Room Number: 316