Torrey Peters - Detransition, Baby 

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8
2024

Torrey Peters - Detransition, Baby 

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How can we rethink gender (de)transition? With Dr Lieks Hettinga.

Update: Due to illness, this event will not take place.

The bestselling book Detransition, Baby was called 'perhaps the first great trans realist novel' by The Guardian. It exposes the dreams and sometimes harsh realities of the trans community. One character has an urgent desire to have children, another decides to reverse his transition because he finds life as a trans woman too difficult. Gender scholar Dr Lieks Hettinga (LEI) on the binary logic surrounding (de) transition and contemporary attacks on trans womanhood.

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Door een goed geschreven verhaal voel je – voor even – hoe het is om in de schoenen te staan van iemand die je niet bent, of juist iemand die je altijd al was maar waarvoor je de woorden eerder nog niet kende. Drie wetenschappers over emancipatoire boeken.