What Sort of Work is Transition? Class, Labor, and Trans History

The 2023 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture is "What Sort of Work is Transition? Class, Labor, and Trans History," delivered by Jules Gill-Peterson, associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. Gill-Peterson is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), the first book to shatter the widespread myth that transgender children are a brand new generation in the twenty-first century. Uncovering a surprising archive dating from the 1920s through 1970s, Histories of the Transgender Child shows how the concept of gender relies on the medicalization of children's presumed racial plasticity, challenging the very terms of how we talk about today's medical model. The book was awarded a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. Her next book, coming in January 2024 from Verso Books, is A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Register using link.