Ungendering Trans: A Response to the Atrocious Genre of the Huam with Dr. PJ DiPreieto

By weaving together Jotería Studies and Latin American travesti / trans theorizing, this talk focuses on coloniality’s introduction of atrocity in the carnal economy of Turtle Island and Abya Yala. Travesti/trans and jotería communities respond to these atrocious conditions of existence through anticapitalist, care-affirming, and crip knowledge and practice. Within this genealogy, PJ DiPietro offers ungendering trans as a methodological shift, a theoretical and care device that both challenge ableist notions of trans/gender and centers nonconformity among Native, Indigenous, and Afro-diasporic lifeways.

Dr. PJ DiPietro is Associate Professor in Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University with affiliations in Philosophy, Latino-Latin American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and LGBTQ Studies. They are one of the co-editors of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones (SUNY 2019) and Trans Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press 2024). This talk highlights their recently published book, Sideways Selves, Travesty and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas (University of Texas Press 2025).

Sponsored by Yale University's Programs in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Philosophy

Pre-event refreshments served