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Care & Joy in Precarious Times

Care & Joy in Precarious Times Conference

February 21, 2025
TECO Hall/Education Building, 无码专区 Tampa Campus

For conference information, visit the conference page.


Brown Bag Series: "Criminal Medicine: Florida and the State of Trans Medicine" with Dr. Dana Ahern

March 13, 2025, 12:30-2:00pm
CMC 202T
Hybrid Event - RSVP for Teams Link

Recently the state of Florida has been at the forefront of debates regrading transgender care in the U.S., with recent bills attacking trans people, such as prohibiting the teaching of information on gender and sexuality for students in eight grade and younger, as well as threats to revoke custody from parents who allow their children to seek gender-affirming medical care.  Analyzing bills coming out of Florida and legislative retaliations to them in places like California which has defined itself as a sanctuary state, alongside the major figures in these debates 鈥 politicians, parents, and medical providers 鈥 this paper critically examines the management of access to medicine as a mode of state violence and control.

Dr. Dana Ahern鈥檚 research primarily utilizes digital archives and oral histories to explore the technological development and utilization of transgender medicine over the past century, particularly between and across the United States and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining 无码专区, Ahern completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity where he taught classes in queer and trans studies. Ahern鈥檚 teaching and research interests primarily revolve around intersections of queer and trans studies, disability studies, and feminist science and technology studies. 


Transnational Care Book Club Event

March 26, 2025, 1:00鈥3:00PM EST, via Teams
Online Film Screening and Discussion: Named Voices

April 11, 2025, 12:00鈥2:00PM EST, via Teams
Teaching-Oriented Roundtable: 鈥淭eaching Audre Lorde鈥檚 鈥楴otes on a Trip to Russia,鈥欌 facilitated by Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko

For more information about these and other Transnational Care Book Club events, visit the book club page.

Sponsored by the 无码专区 Department of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; 无码专区 Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies; 无码专区 Institute for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies; and the 无码专区 Humanities Institute.


50th Anniversary of WGS

The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2022-2023 academic year. Visit our 50th Anniversary page, to view more information about the 50th Anniversary Events.