Spring Meeting Pre-Conference Workshop: Cisteria! A Psychoanalysis Against Anti-Trans Panics

April 22, 8:30am - 12:00pm

via Zoom

This pre-conference workshop is being offered for free to all who are interested.  If you are NOT attending the Spring Meeting, but would still like to attend, you can register here to receive the Zoom link.  NOTE:  If you are registering for Spring Meeting, this session will already be included in your registration and available via the mobile app and event website.  You only need to register here if you are not registering for the Spring Meeting.

Description:

This workshop introduces Cisteria! as a collective transpsychoanalytic intervention against contemporary anti-trans panics and the institutional forms that sustain them. Drawing from the Cisteria! special issue, contributors explore transpectres and cisteria as defensive formations that relocate pathology away from trans subjectivity and toward ciscentric power. Through brief clinical, theoretical, and creative interventions, the workshop offers “unfaithful recalibrations” of psychoanalysis and invites participants to consider how psychic life might be reclaimed from institutions through play, critique, and trans world-making.

Speakers:

Tavi Bishop
Jess Joseph
Tobias Wiggins