Paper Title
Intersectionality, New Materialisms, and Health: Technological Animacies and the Maldistribution of Life Chances
Moderator
Mary Wyer, North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Location
Room 214, West Center
Keywords
intersectionality, biopolitics, necropolitics, new materialism, trans, intersex, queer
Start Date
2-4-2016 3:30 PM
End Date
2-4-2016 4:45 PM
Abstract
How does intersectionality operate in the context of the posthuman turn? How are feminist scholars thinking the animacy and affect of technological objects, particularly those that are intimately related to questions of life, death, and subjective/communal flourishing, utilizing tools derived for complicating feminist theories of human subjectivity? This panel merges intersectionality and feminist new materialisms in its interrogation of three different technologies that pose significant challenges to conventional humanist understandings of gender, health, and community: hormones, life support, and social media. Each paper tracks the interface between these technologies and minoritized populations, paying attention to the ways in which these techno-human interfaces are mediated by enmeshed hierarchies of race, gender, and sexuality that significantly shape the life chances and necro-vulnerability of differently disenfranchised communities.
Please click the links below to view more information about each presentation. “Compromised Access: Hormones, Transition, and Necropolitics”
Hilary Malatino, East Tennessee State University
“I Saw It On Tumblr: Social Media, Intersectionality, and Queer Research”
Emma Fredrick, East Tennessee State University
“Necro-Crip Affinities and the Death of Intersectionality”
Lindsey Breitwieser, Indiana University – Bloomington
“Celebration and Sadness: Disability Studies with Mother and Daughter”
Alison Piepmeier, College of Charleston
Intersectionality, New Materialisms, and Health: Technological Animacies and the Maldistribution of Life Chances
Room 214, West Center
How does intersectionality operate in the context of the posthuman turn? How are feminist scholars thinking the animacy and affect of technological objects, particularly those that are intimately related to questions of life, death, and subjective/communal flourishing, utilizing tools derived for complicating feminist theories of human subjectivity? This panel merges intersectionality and feminist new materialisms in its interrogation of three different technologies that pose significant challenges to conventional humanist understandings of gender, health, and community: hormones, life support, and social media. Each paper tracks the interface between these technologies and minoritized populations, paying attention to the ways in which these techno-human interfaces are mediated by enmeshed hierarchies of race, gender, and sexuality that significantly shape the life chances and necro-vulnerability of differently disenfranchised communities.
Please click the links below to view more information about each presentation. “Compromised Access: Hormones, Transition, and Necropolitics”
Hilary Malatino, East Tennessee State University
“I Saw It On Tumblr: Social Media, Intersectionality, and Queer Research”
Emma Fredrick, East Tennessee State University
“Necro-Crip Affinities and the Death of Intersectionality”
Lindsey Breitwieser, Indiana University – Bloomington
“Celebration and Sadness: Disability Studies with Mother and Daughter”
Alison Piepmeier, College of Charleston
