Trans/gendering the Academy program

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back-to-the-land movement.

fetch Amber a glass of wine, but they're working on it.

2016). Currently Pomerleau is researching Helen Nearing in relation to the

International, and she has a rescue dog named Bluebell who still hasn't figured out how to

Methods, Identities, Publics, Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series (Routledge,

also a board member of the League of Women Voters of Texas, a proud member of Rotary

about Sexuality” in Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, eds. Sexual Rhetorics:

navigate the world of boy/girl while simultaneously challenging gender stereotypes. She is

His most recent publication is “‘Consorting with the Enemy?’: Women’s Liberation Rhetoric

has quickly and earnestly become an advocate for transgender rights, helping her son

Classism, and Racism (University of Texas Press, 2013).

mislabeled at birth and identified not as a girl, but as a boy. Through trial by fire, Amber

Pomerleau’s first monograph is Califia Women: Feminist Education against Sexism,

many surprises along the way—including MG's revelation at the age of 2 that he was

He specializes in the U.S. histories of gender, sexuality, and social movements.

the mother of two incredible children—Lulu (age 3) and MG (age 8), who have brought

Clark A. Pomerleau is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas.

Amber Briggle is a small business owner, a community volunteer, a political junkie, and

in a Nuclear Age. pedagogies, and a graphic novel called With Finn and Wing: Growing Up Amphibious University Press, 2012). Enke is currently writing a collection of essays on transfeminist Transfeminist Perspectives: In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (Temple Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Duke University Press, 1997), and editor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Finn Enke is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, History, and LGBTQ Studies at

Thursday, April 7th / 5:30pm-7:00pm / ART 223 "Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age”

PRESENTED BY DR. FINN ENKE

Video 3: Brothers, Ep. 1 (10 minutes) Video 1: Just Gender (24 minutes)

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Video 4: TEDxTWU Talk by Amber Briggle (15 minutes)

Panel Discussion

Video 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 minutes)

Friday, April 8 / 10:00am-11:55am / UNT Union, Room 332 FEATURING DR. FINN ENKE, DR. CLARK A. POMERLEAU AND AMBER BRIGGLE

Video Fest & Panel Discussion Adetty Pérez de Miles is an Assistant Professor at The University of North Texas. She earned a dual Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include feminist theory and epistemology, the intersection of contemporary art and technology, socially engaged art practices, and teacher education. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on visual culture, feminist epistemology, dialogic pedagogy, contemporary Latin America art, and Bakhtin’s philosophy of communication. Pérez Miles is currently working on a

Thursday, April 7th

Friday, April 8th

PUBLIC LECTURE

VIDEO FEST & PANEL DISCUSSION

Finn Enke

Finn Enke Clark A. Pomerleau Amber Briggle

5:30pm to 7:00pm – ART Bldg, 223

10:00am to 11:55am - UNT Union, 332

In this talk, Finn Enke puts their graphic novel, With

VIDEO 1: Just Gender (24 min.)

"Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age”

co-authored book, Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism (Taylor Francis Press, 2017), and co-edited special issue journal: “Speculative Realism(s) objects/ matter /entanglements of art and design education,” International Journal of Education Through Art.

Finn and Wing: Growing Up in a Nuclear Age (in progress), in conversation with transfeminist, queer and disability studies to consider rhetorical agency

Co-Organizer

and the meaning of gender in situations of high

VIDEO 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 min)

(in)security.

PANEL DISCUSSION Enke illuminates children’s efforts to articulate Kevin Jenkins is a Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Art Education at the University of North Texas. His research includes gender transition documentation as palimpsest and social media as an artistic space, pedagogical tool, and site for activism. His forthcoming publications include book chapters “Vagina Dialogues: Un/Mediated, Un/Censored” in Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism Book and “Which Way Did He Go, George?: A Phenomenology of Public Bathroom Use” in Pedagogies in the Flesh: Teaching, Learning, and the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education.

trans-being prior to the vocabulary of transgender

VIDEO 3: Brothers, ep. 1 (10 min.)

alongside more recent efforts to exclude trans bodies from school bathrooms.

VIDEO 4: TEDxTWU Talk (15 min.)

The purpose is to work the very places where

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A

disciplining grammars and diagnostic apparatuses appear most powerful. Taking to heart Georgina Kleege’s suggestion that we learn to see “at an angle,” and even “see with different parts of the body,” Enke offers a trans-poetic articulation of non-binary being.

Public Lecture

Summit Originator & Moderator

April 6 - 8, 2016

TRANS GENDERING THE ACADEMY Building LGBTQ Coalitions for Change Summit


His most recent publication is “‘Consorting with the Enemy?’: Women’s Liberation Rhetoric

has quickly and earnestly become an advocate for transgender rights, helping her son

about Sexuality” in Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, eds. Sexual Rhetorics:

navigate the world of boy/girl while simultaneously challenging gender stereotypes. She is

Methods, Identities, Publics, Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series (Routledge,

also a board member of the League of Women Voters of Texas, a proud member of Rotary

2016). Currently Pomerleau is researching Helen Nearing in relation to the

International, and she has a rescue dog named Bluebell who still hasn't figured out how to

back-to-the-land movement.

fetch Amber a glass of wine, but they're working on it.

Clark A. Pomerleau is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas.

Amber Briggle is a small business owner, a community volunteer, a political junkie, and

He specializes in the U.S. histories of gender, sexuality, and social movements.

the mother of two incredible children—Lulu (age 3) and MG (age 8), who have brought

Pomerleau’s first monograph is Califia Women: Feminist Education against Sexism,

many surprises along the way—including MG's revelation at the age of 2 that he was

Classism, and Racism (University of Texas Press, 2013).

mislabeled at birth and identified not as a girl, but as a boy. Through trial by fire, Amber

in a Nuclear Age. pedagogies, and a graphic novel called With Finn and Wing: Growing Up Amphibious University Press, 2012). Enke is currently writing a collection of essays on transfeminist Transfeminist Perspectives: In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (Temple Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Duke University Press, 1997), and editor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality,

"Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age”

Friday, April 8 / 10:00am-11:55am / UNT Union, Room 332

Thursday, April 7th / 5:30pm-7:00pm / ART 223

Video 1: Just Gender (24 minutes)

Video 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 minutes)

Panel Discussion

Finn Enke is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, History, and LGBTQ Studies at

Video 3: Brothers, Ep. 1 (10 minutes)

Video 4: TEDxTWU Talk by Amber Briggle (15 minutes)

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Video Fest & Panel Discussion

PRESENTED BY DR. FINN ENKE

FEATURING DR. FINN ENKE, DR. CLARK A. POMERLEAU AND AMBER BRIGGLE

Summit Originator & Moderator

Public Lecture

Thursday, April 7th PUBLIC LECTURE

Adetty Pérez de Miles is an Assistant Professor at The University of North Texas. She earned a dual Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include feminist theory and epistemology, the intersection of contemporary art and technology, socially engaged art practices, and teacher education. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on visual culture, feminist epistemology, dialogic pedagogy, contemporary Latin America art, and Bakhtin’s philosophy of communication. Pérez Miles is currently working on a

Friday, April 8th VIDEO FEST & PANEL DISCUSSION

Finn Enke

"Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age” 5:30pm to 7:00pm – ART Bldg, 223

Finn Enke Clark A. Pomerleau Amber Briggle

10:00am to 11:55am - UNT Union, 332

co-authored book, Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism (Taylor Francis Press, 2017), and co-edited special issue journal: “Speculative Realism(s) objects/ matter /entanglements of art and design education,” International Journal of Education Through Art.

In this talk, Finn Enke puts their graphic novel, With

VIDEO 1: Just Gender (24 min.)

Finn and Wing: Growing Up in a Nuclear Age (in progress), in conversation with transfeminist, queer and disability studies to consider rhetorical agency

Co-Organizer

and the meaning of gender in situations of high

VIDEO 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 min)

(in)security.

PANEL DISCUSSION

April 6 - 8, 2016

TRANS GENDERING THE ACADEMY Building LGBTQ Coalitions for Change Summit

Enke illuminates children’s efforts to articulate Kevin Jenkins is a Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Art Education at the University of North Texas. His research includes gender transition documentation as palimpsest and social media as an artistic space, pedagogical tool, and site for activism. His forthcoming publications include book chapters “Vagina Dialogues: Un/Mediated, Un/Censored” in Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism Book and “Which Way Did He Go, George?: A Phenomenology of Public Bathroom Use” in Pedagogies in the Flesh: Teaching, Learning, and the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education.

trans-being prior to the vocabulary of transgender

VIDEO 3: Brothers, ep. 1 (10 min.)

alongside more recent efforts to exclude trans bodies

VIDEO 4: TEDxTWU Talk (15 min.)

from school bathrooms. The purpose is to work the very places where

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A

disciplining grammars and diagnostic apparatuses appear most powerful. Taking to heart Georgina Kleege’s suggestion that we learn to see “at an angle,” and even “see with different parts of the body,” Enke offers a trans-poetic articulation of non-binary being.


His most recent publication is “‘Consorting with the Enemy?’: Women’s Liberation Rhetoric

has quickly and earnestly become an advocate for transgender rights, helping her son

about Sexuality” in Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, eds. Sexual Rhetorics:

navigate the world of boy/girl while simultaneously challenging gender stereotypes. She is

Methods, Identities, Publics, Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series (Routledge,

also a board member of the League of Women Voters of Texas, a proud member of Rotary

2016). Currently Pomerleau is researching Helen Nearing in relation to the

International, and she has a rescue dog named Bluebell who still hasn't figured out how to

back-to-the-land movement.

fetch Amber a glass of wine, but they're working on it.

Clark A. Pomerleau is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas.

Amber Briggle is a small business owner, a community volunteer, a political junkie, and

He specializes in the U.S. histories of gender, sexuality, and social movements.

the mother of two incredible children—Lulu (age 3) and MG (age 8), who have brought

Pomerleau’s first monograph is Califia Women: Feminist Education against Sexism,

many surprises along the way—including MG's revelation at the age of 2 that he was

Classism, and Racism (University of Texas Press, 2013).

mislabeled at birth and identified not as a girl, but as a boy. Through trial by fire, Amber

in a Nuclear Age. pedagogies, and a graphic novel called With Finn and Wing: Growing Up Amphibious University Press, 2012). Enke is currently writing a collection of essays on transfeminist Transfeminist Perspectives: In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (Temple Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Duke University Press, 1997), and editor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality,

"Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age”

Friday, April 8 / 10:00am-11:55am / UNT Union, Room 332

Thursday, April 7th / 5:30pm-7:00pm / ART 223

Video 1: Just Gender (24 minutes)

Video 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 minutes)

Panel Discussion

Finn Enke is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, History, and LGBTQ Studies at

Video 3: Brothers, Ep. 1 (10 minutes)

Video 4: TEDxTWU Talk by Amber Briggle (15 minutes)

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Video Fest & Panel Discussion

PRESENTED BY DR. FINN ENKE

FEATURING DR. FINN ENKE, DR. CLARK A. POMERLEAU AND AMBER BRIGGLE

Summit Originator & Moderator

Public Lecture

Thursday, April 7th PUBLIC LECTURE

Adetty Pérez de Miles is an Assistant Professor at The University of North Texas. She earned a dual Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include feminist theory and epistemology, the intersection of contemporary art and technology, socially engaged art practices, and teacher education. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on visual culture, feminist epistemology, dialogic pedagogy, contemporary Latin America art, and Bakhtin’s philosophy of communication. Pérez Miles is currently working on a

Friday, April 8th VIDEO FEST & PANEL DISCUSSION

Finn Enke

"Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age” 5:30pm to 7:00pm – ART Bldg, 223

Finn Enke Clark A. Pomerleau Amber Briggle

10:00am to 11:55am - UNT Union, 332

co-authored book, Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism (Taylor Francis Press, 2017), and co-edited special issue journal: “Speculative Realism(s) objects/ matter /entanglements of art and design education,” International Journal of Education Through Art.

In this talk, Finn Enke puts their graphic novel, With

VIDEO 1: Just Gender (24 min.)

Finn and Wing: Growing Up in a Nuclear Age (in progress), in conversation with transfeminist, queer and disability studies to consider rhetorical agency

Co-Organizer

and the meaning of gender in situations of high

VIDEO 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 min)

(in)security.

PANEL DISCUSSION

April 6 - 8, 2016

TRANS GENDERING THE ACADEMY Building LGBTQ Coalitions for Change Summit

Enke illuminates children’s efforts to articulate Kevin Jenkins is a Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Art Education at the University of North Texas. His research includes gender transition documentation as palimpsest and social media as an artistic space, pedagogical tool, and site for activism. His forthcoming publications include book chapters “Vagina Dialogues: Un/Mediated, Un/Censored” in Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism Book and “Which Way Did He Go, George?: A Phenomenology of Public Bathroom Use” in Pedagogies in the Flesh: Teaching, Learning, and the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education.

trans-being prior to the vocabulary of transgender

VIDEO 3: Brothers, ep. 1 (10 min.)

alongside more recent efforts to exclude trans bodies

VIDEO 4: TEDxTWU Talk (15 min.)

from school bathrooms. The purpose is to work the very places where

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A

disciplining grammars and diagnostic apparatuses appear most powerful. Taking to heart Georgina Kleege’s suggestion that we learn to see “at an angle,” and even “see with different parts of the body,” Enke offers a trans-poetic articulation of non-binary being.


His most recent publication is “‘Consorting with the Enemy?’: Women’s Liberation Rhetoric

has quickly and earnestly become an advocate for transgender rights, helping her son

about Sexuality” in Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, eds. Sexual Rhetorics:

navigate the world of boy/girl while simultaneously challenging gender stereotypes. She is

Methods, Identities, Publics, Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series (Routledge,

also a board member of the League of Women Voters of Texas, a proud member of Rotary

2016). Currently Pomerleau is researching Helen Nearing in relation to the

International, and she has a rescue dog named Bluebell who still hasn't figured out how to

back-to-the-land movement.

fetch Amber a glass of wine, but they're working on it.

Clark A. Pomerleau is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas.

Amber Briggle is a small business owner, a community volunteer, a political junkie, and

He specializes in the U.S. histories of gender, sexuality, and social movements.

the mother of two incredible children—Lulu (age 3) and MG (age 8), who have brought

Pomerleau’s first monograph is Califia Women: Feminist Education against Sexism,

many surprises along the way—including MG's revelation at the age of 2 that he was

Classism, and Racism (University of Texas Press, 2013).

mislabeled at birth and identified not as a girl, but as a boy. Through trial by fire, Amber

in a Nuclear Age. pedagogies, and a graphic novel called With Finn and Wing: Growing Up Amphibious University Press, 2012). Enke is currently writing a collection of essays on transfeminist Transfeminist Perspectives: In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (Temple Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Duke University Press, 1997), and editor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality,

"Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age”

Friday, April 8 / 10:00am-11:55am / UNT Union, Room 332

Thursday, April 7th / 5:30pm-7:00pm / ART 223

Video 1: Just Gender (24 minutes)

Video 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 minutes)

Panel Discussion

Finn Enke is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, History, and LGBTQ Studies at

Video 3: Brothers, Ep. 1 (10 minutes)

Video 4: TEDxTWU Talk by Amber Briggle (15 minutes)

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Video Fest & Panel Discussion

PRESENTED BY DR. FINN ENKE

FEATURING DR. FINN ENKE, DR. CLARK A. POMERLEAU AND AMBER BRIGGLE

Summit Originator & Moderator

Public Lecture

Thursday, April 7th PUBLIC LECTURE

Adetty Pérez de Miles is an Assistant Professor at The University of North Texas. She earned a dual Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include feminist theory and epistemology, the intersection of contemporary art and technology, socially engaged art practices, and teacher education. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on visual culture, feminist epistemology, dialogic pedagogy, contemporary Latin America art, and Bakhtin’s philosophy of communication. Pérez Miles is currently working on a

Friday, April 8th VIDEO FEST & PANEL DISCUSSION

Finn Enke

"Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age” 5:30pm to 7:00pm – ART Bldg, 223

Finn Enke Clark A. Pomerleau Amber Briggle

10:00am to 11:55am - UNT Union, 332

co-authored book, Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism (Taylor Francis Press, 2017), and co-edited special issue journal: “Speculative Realism(s) objects/ matter /entanglements of art and design education,” International Journal of Education Through Art.

In this talk, Finn Enke puts their graphic novel, With

VIDEO 1: Just Gender (24 min.)

Finn and Wing: Growing Up in a Nuclear Age (in progress), in conversation with transfeminist, queer and disability studies to consider rhetorical agency

Co-Organizer

and the meaning of gender in situations of high

VIDEO 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 min)

(in)security.

PANEL DISCUSSION

April 6 - 8, 2016

TRANS GENDERING THE ACADEMY Building LGBTQ Coalitions for Change Summit

Enke illuminates children’s efforts to articulate Kevin Jenkins is a Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Art Education at the University of North Texas. His research includes gender transition documentation as palimpsest and social media as an artistic space, pedagogical tool, and site for activism. His forthcoming publications include book chapters “Vagina Dialogues: Un/Mediated, Un/Censored” in Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism Book and “Which Way Did He Go, George?: A Phenomenology of Public Bathroom Use” in Pedagogies in the Flesh: Teaching, Learning, and the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education.

trans-being prior to the vocabulary of transgender

VIDEO 3: Brothers, ep. 1 (10 min.)

alongside more recent efforts to exclude trans bodies

VIDEO 4: TEDxTWU Talk (15 min.)

from school bathrooms. The purpose is to work the very places where

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A

disciplining grammars and diagnostic apparatuses appear most powerful. Taking to heart Georgina Kleege’s suggestion that we learn to see “at an angle,” and even “see with different parts of the body,” Enke offers a trans-poetic articulation of non-binary being.


back-to-the-land movement.

fetch Amber a glass of wine, but they're working on it.

2016). Currently Pomerleau is researching Helen Nearing in relation to the

International, and she has a rescue dog named Bluebell who still hasn't figured out how to

Methods, Identities, Publics, Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series (Routledge,

also a board member of the League of Women Voters of Texas, a proud member of Rotary

about Sexuality” in Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, eds. Sexual Rhetorics:

navigate the world of boy/girl while simultaneously challenging gender stereotypes. She is

His most recent publication is “‘Consorting with the Enemy?’: Women’s Liberation Rhetoric

has quickly and earnestly become an advocate for transgender rights, helping her son

Classism, and Racism (University of Texas Press, 2013).

mislabeled at birth and identified not as a girl, but as a boy. Through trial by fire, Amber

Pomerleau’s first monograph is Califia Women: Feminist Education against Sexism,

many surprises along the way—including MG's revelation at the age of 2 that he was

He specializes in the U.S. histories of gender, sexuality, and social movements.

the mother of two incredible children—Lulu (age 3) and MG (age 8), who have brought

Clark A. Pomerleau is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas.

Amber Briggle is a small business owner, a community volunteer, a political junkie, and

in a Nuclear Age. pedagogies, and a graphic novel called With Finn and Wing: Growing Up Amphibious University Press, 2012). Enke is currently writing a collection of essays on transfeminist Transfeminist Perspectives: In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (Temple Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Duke University Press, 1997), and editor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Finn Enke is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, History, and LGBTQ Studies at

Thursday, April 7th / 5:30pm-7:00pm / ART 223 "Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age”

PRESENTED BY DR. FINN ENKE

Video 3: Brothers, Ep. 1 (10 minutes) Video 1: Just Gender (24 minutes)

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Video 4: TEDxTWU Talk by Amber Briggle (15 minutes)

Panel Discussion

Video 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 minutes)

Friday, April 8 / 10:00am-11:55am / UNT Union, Room 332 FEATURING DR. FINN ENKE, DR. CLARK A. POMERLEAU AND AMBER BRIGGLE

Video Fest & Panel Discussion Adetty Pérez de Miles is an Assistant Professor at The University of North Texas. She earned a dual Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include feminist theory and epistemology, the intersection of contemporary art and technology, socially engaged art practices, and teacher education. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on visual culture, feminist epistemology, dialogic pedagogy, contemporary Latin America art, and Bakhtin’s philosophy of communication. Pérez Miles is currently working on a

Thursday, April 7th

Friday, April 8th

PUBLIC LECTURE

VIDEO FEST & PANEL DISCUSSION

Finn Enke

Finn Enke Clark A. Pomerleau Amber Briggle

5:30pm to 7:00pm – ART Bldg, 223

10:00am to 11:55am - UNT Union, 332

In this talk, Finn Enke puts their graphic novel, With

VIDEO 1: Just Gender (24 min.)

"Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age”

co-authored book, Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism (Taylor Francis Press, 2017), and co-edited special issue journal: “Speculative Realism(s) objects/ matter /entanglements of art and design education,” International Journal of Education Through Art.

Finn and Wing: Growing Up in a Nuclear Age (in progress), in conversation with transfeminist, queer and disability studies to consider rhetorical agency

Co-Organizer

and the meaning of gender in situations of high

VIDEO 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 min)

(in)security.

PANEL DISCUSSION Enke illuminates children’s efforts to articulate Kevin Jenkins is a Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Art Education at the University of North Texas. His research includes gender transition documentation as palimpsest and social media as an artistic space, pedagogical tool, and site for activism. His forthcoming publications include book chapters “Vagina Dialogues: Un/Mediated, Un/Censored” in Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism Book and “Which Way Did He Go, George?: A Phenomenology of Public Bathroom Use” in Pedagogies in the Flesh: Teaching, Learning, and the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education.

trans-being prior to the vocabulary of transgender

VIDEO 3: Brothers, ep. 1 (10 min.)

alongside more recent efforts to exclude trans bodies from school bathrooms.

VIDEO 4: TEDxTWU Talk (15 min.)

The purpose is to work the very places where

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A

disciplining grammars and diagnostic apparatuses appear most powerful. Taking to heart Georgina Kleege’s suggestion that we learn to see “at an angle,” and even “see with different parts of the body,” Enke offers a trans-poetic articulation of non-binary being.

Public Lecture

Summit Originator & Moderator

April 6 - 8, 2016

TRANS GENDERING THE ACADEMY Building LGBTQ Coalitions for Change Summit


back-to-the-land movement.

fetch Amber a glass of wine, but they're working on it.

2016). Currently Pomerleau is researching Helen Nearing in relation to the

International, and she has a rescue dog named Bluebell who still hasn't figured out how to

Methods, Identities, Publics, Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series (Routledge,

also a board member of the League of Women Voters of Texas, a proud member of Rotary

about Sexuality” in Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, eds. Sexual Rhetorics:

navigate the world of boy/girl while simultaneously challenging gender stereotypes. She is

His most recent publication is “‘Consorting with the Enemy?’: Women’s Liberation Rhetoric

has quickly and earnestly become an advocate for transgender rights, helping her son

Classism, and Racism (University of Texas Press, 2013).

mislabeled at birth and identified not as a girl, but as a boy. Through trial by fire, Amber

Pomerleau’s first monograph is Califia Women: Feminist Education against Sexism,

many surprises along the way—including MG's revelation at the age of 2 that he was

He specializes in the U.S. histories of gender, sexuality, and social movements.

the mother of two incredible children—Lulu (age 3) and MG (age 8), who have brought

Clark A. Pomerleau is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas.

Amber Briggle is a small business owner, a community volunteer, a political junkie, and

in a Nuclear Age. pedagogies, and a graphic novel called With Finn and Wing: Growing Up Amphibious University Press, 2012). Enke is currently writing a collection of essays on transfeminist Transfeminist Perspectives: In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (Temple Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Duke University Press, 1997), and editor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Finn Enke is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, History, and LGBTQ Studies at

Thursday, April 7th / 5:30pm-7:00pm / ART 223 "Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age”

PRESENTED BY DR. FINN ENKE

Video 3: Brothers, Ep. 1 (10 minutes) Video 1: Just Gender (24 minutes)

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Video 4: TEDxTWU Talk by Amber Briggle (15 minutes)

Panel Discussion

Video 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 minutes)

Friday, April 8 / 10:00am-11:55am / UNT Union, Room 332 FEATURING DR. FINN ENKE, DR. CLARK A. POMERLEAU AND AMBER BRIGGLE

Video Fest & Panel Discussion Adetty Pérez de Miles is an Assistant Professor at The University of North Texas. She earned a dual Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include feminist theory and epistemology, the intersection of contemporary art and technology, socially engaged art practices, and teacher education. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on visual culture, feminist epistemology, dialogic pedagogy, contemporary Latin America art, and Bakhtin’s philosophy of communication. Pérez Miles is currently working on a

Thursday, April 7th

Friday, April 8th

PUBLIC LECTURE

VIDEO FEST & PANEL DISCUSSION

Finn Enke

Finn Enke Clark A. Pomerleau Amber Briggle

5:30pm to 7:00pm – ART Bldg, 223

10:00am to 11:55am - UNT Union, 332

In this talk, Finn Enke puts their graphic novel, With

VIDEO 1: Just Gender (24 min.)

"Trapped in the Wrong Lie Detector: Articulating Transgender in the Security Age”

co-authored book, Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism (Taylor Francis Press, 2017), and co-edited special issue journal: “Speculative Realism(s) objects/ matter /entanglements of art and design education,” International Journal of Education Through Art.

Finn and Wing: Growing Up in a Nuclear Age (in progress), in conversation with transfeminist, queer and disability studies to consider rhetorical agency

Co-Organizer

and the meaning of gender in situations of high

VIDEO 2: Her Story Cast: On the importance of authentic representation (2.5 min)

(in)security.

PANEL DISCUSSION Enke illuminates children’s efforts to articulate Kevin Jenkins is a Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Art Education at the University of North Texas. His research includes gender transition documentation as palimpsest and social media as an artistic space, pedagogical tool, and site for activism. His forthcoming publications include book chapters “Vagina Dialogues: Un/Mediated, Un/Censored” in Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism Book and “Which Way Did He Go, George?: A Phenomenology of Public Bathroom Use” in Pedagogies in the Flesh: Teaching, Learning, and the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education.

trans-being prior to the vocabulary of transgender

VIDEO 3: Brothers, ep. 1 (10 min.)

alongside more recent efforts to exclude trans bodies from school bathrooms.

VIDEO 4: TEDxTWU Talk (15 min.)

The purpose is to work the very places where

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A

disciplining grammars and diagnostic apparatuses appear most powerful. Taking to heart Georgina Kleege’s suggestion that we learn to see “at an angle,” and even “see with different parts of the body,” Enke offers a trans-poetic articulation of non-binary being.

Public Lecture

Summit Originator & Moderator

April 6 - 8, 2016

TRANS GENDERING THE ACADEMY Building LGBTQ Coalitions for Change Summit


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