trans* through trembling times

Jack Halberstam’s talk thinks trans* in relation to our current set of crises around rights, representations, and recognition. Central to this is a focus on forms of illegibility and in-betweenness, articulated through the concept of unworlding. The talk will build on conceptual reflections that have shaped Halberstam’s work and found broad resonance across trans* and queer theoretical contexts. Halberstam thinks trans* not as a fixed identity but as an ever-expanding, ever-multiplying category of gendered and sexual being. The asterisk operates as a glitch in the grammar of normativity—it resists final form, holds identity open, and insists on political indeterminacy. The Summer School trans* through trembling times will take up this perspective. In concentrated working groups, the Summer School aims to translate the principle of unmaking into social practices and to develop forms of queer commons.

Collective Digestion with Mawuto Dotou, Luce deLire, Ruxin Liu, Joëlle Mesén-Ramírez, nate wessalowski and others & Community Evenings with nipslips, Evo Sidney and others

At the heart of the Summer School is a process we call Collective Digestion: a shared attempt to explore, in thinking and doing, what theories like Jack Halberstam’s can do in practice. Together, we ask how concepts such as unworlding, illegibility, and in-betweenness can inform social and artistic strategies under conditions of crisis. In concentrated working groups, the Summer School aims to translate the principle of unmaking into social practices and to develop forms of queer commons. Parallel workshop streams will alternate with shared moments of digestion and collective reflection. Each day ends with informal gatherings to continue thinking, resting, and being together.

HFBK, Hörsaal, room 229
https://www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en...

Collective Digestion with Mawuto Dotou, Luce deLire, Ruxin Liu, Joëlle Mesén-Ramírez, nate wessalowski and others & Community Evenings with nipslips, Evo Sidney and others

At the heart of the Summer School is a process we call Collective Digestion: a shared attempt to explore, in thinking and doing, what theories like Jack Halberstam’s can do in practice. Together, we ask how concepts such as unworlding, illegibility, and in-betweenness can inform social and artistic strategies under conditions of crisis. In concentrated working groups, the Summer School aims to translate the principle of unmaking into social practices and to develop forms of queer commons. Parallel workshop streams will alternate with shared moments of digestion and collective reflection. Each day ends with informal gatherings to continue thinking, resting, and being together.

room 213 and 213 a/b
https://www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en...