Bonjour tout le monde !
Pour sa 65e conférence, PhiloSitué-es (anciennement « Fillosophie ») a le plaisir d’accueillir Quill Kukla (Georgetown University) pour une conférence intitulée "Centering Gender Euphoria".
La présentation aura lieu le vendredi, 17 octobre à 15 h, au local W-5215 de l’UQAM (455 boulevard René Lévesque).
La conférence est gratuite et se déroulera en anglais. Vous pourrez poser vos questions en anglais et en français. Des collations et des boissons chaudes (thé, café) vous seront offertes sur place.
Pour trouver plus d'informations sur la conférence, veuillez consulter l’événement Facebook ou notre site web.
Nous espérons vous y voir en grand nombre !
L’équipe PhiloSitué-es
Résumé de la conférence/Abstract :
The concept of gender dysphoria, typically understood as an experienced mismatch between one’s ‘inner’ gender identity and one’s body, has been central to defining and ‘diagnosing’ transness. As a result, trans lives are understood as essentially tragic and pathological. The concept of gender euphoria, which roughly can be understood as embodied joy, excitement, or pleasure at how one’s body expresses gender, is an important one in trans communities, and is central to trans experience for many, but it has received very little attention from academics, health care systems, or mainstream culture. I explore the idea that gender euphoria, and gender dysphoria understood as the complement of gender euphoria, are not specifically trans experiences. They can be experienced by anyone, although they are only named and pathologized for trans people. Centering euphoria rather than dysphoria helps break down inappropriately rigid distinctions between trans and cis people and the ossification of the gender binary. I argue that centering gender euphoria rather than gender dysphoria as a basic concept gives us a more accurate and more helpfully directive understanding of trans experiences and needs, as well as a less distorted understanding of gender itself. It also makes trans joy visible and lets us value trans embodiment on its own terms.
Biographie/Biography of the speaker :
Quill Kukla is Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University. They are also the Editor-in-Chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, a Visiting Research Fellow at the SOCRATES Centre for Advanced Studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover, a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and a Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. Their most recent books are City Living: How Urban Dwellers and Urban Spaces Make One Another (Oxford University Press 2021) and Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone (W. W. Norton & Co., 2025).