Trans World-Building

Ten years after the “Transgender Tipping Point,” it’s clear that the only thing that has “tipped” forward is the proliferation of laws and discourses which aim to limit trans life-building. Predominant conservative arguments from writers published in mainstream outlets who identify as “gender critical” (neé “TERF”) abound, “transvestigations” of celebrities and athletes multiply online, and more and more legislation targeting trans people seems to be introduced each day. In the mainstream imagination, trans adults are groomers, pedophiles, and deviants who should be limited in how and when they take up public space; and trans youth are confused, damaged, and should be restricted from making decisions about how to be and build a new world.

Within this trans-antagonistic atmosphere, this program asks: how do gender-expansive people shape the spaces they occupy, even as they are restricted within them?

For this program only, the panel discussion will be recorded and uploaded on to the SF Urban Film Fest YouTube channel after the festival.

Doors open 5:30; Program 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Curators: Kaiya Gordon & LB Byrd

Panelists:

Kaiya Gordon (moderator), Trans Studies Doctoral Student, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jill Hill, Writer/Editor/Director/Producer, Kill Your Landlord

Lalu Ozban, Producer, The Neighbour

Wriply Bennet, Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project Visual Communications Specialist

Kazani Finao, Founder of – Shine Wit Purpose & Student at CCSF major in Critical Pacific Islands & Oceania Studies

 

In this program

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