TRANS PHILOSOPHY event at People’s Book with Perry Zurn
November 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Perry Zurn, co-editor of Trans Philosophy, will join People’s Book on Saturday, November 16, for a reading and discussion of the book at 1:00 p.m. EST.
This event is free and open to the public.
Trans Philosophy defines this burgeoning and polymorphous discipline as philosophical work that is accountable to and illuminative of cross-cultural and global trans experiences, histories, and cultural productions. Centering the contributions of trans and gender-nonconfirming philosophers, the contributors address discrimination, embodiment, identity, language, and law.
Perry Zurn is associate professor of philosophy at American University. He is author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry and How We Make Each Other: Trans Poetics at the Edge of the University and coeditor of Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge.
Andrea J. Pitts is associate professor of comparative literature at the University at Buffalo. They are author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance and coeditor of Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance.
Talia Mae Bettcher is professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. She is author of Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy (Minnesota, 2025); Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology, and the Elusive Subject; and Berkeley: A Guide for the Perplexed.
PJ DiPietro is associate professor of women’s and gender studies and director of the LGBTQ studies program at Syracuse University. They are author of Sideways Selves: The Decolonial Politics of Transing Matter across the Américas and coeditor of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones.