Ithaca College

 The Women's and Gender Studies Program is bringing Shahan Bellamy to campus as our Dissertation Diversity Scholar candidate.  Shahan is a doctoral candidate in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Arizona State University.  His research meets at the intersections of feminist theory, Black trans* studies, queer of color critique, and masculinity studies.  His most recent project titled "Tumblr Saved my Life": An interdisciplinary investigation of how Black trans-masculinity operates through Tumblr uses participatory ethnography to learn about the lives of Black transgender men.  

 The talk will be held in Job Hall 160 on February 27th from 4-5:15 pm.  A description of the talk follows:  

Abject Legibility: Black transmen and (Hyper)(In)Visibility

In this work, I present the concept of "(Hyper)(In)Visibility" to articulate the unique experiences of Black transgender men.  Specifically, this work examines the lives of Black transmen before and after medical transition, by highlighting the geo-political mechanisms that cause Black transmen to encounter societal erasure prior to transitioning when they are read as Black girl/women, and hypervisibiliyy after transitioning and passing for cisgender Black men.  

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