BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:190@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260226T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260226T180000 DTSTAMP:20251124T155621Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/transgressing-disciplines-3rd-annual-bl ack-trans-studies-speaker-series/ SUMMARY:Transgressing Disciplines: 3rd annual Black trans studies speaker s eries DESCRIPTION:\n\ntroizel xx presents how to do things with big black d*cks: political/theological vignettes of pre-op black trans femininity\, fetishi sm\, labor\, + performance\n\nRegister on Eventbrite\n\n \;\n\nIf you have any accessibility needs or requested accommodations\, please email se xual.diversity@utoronto.ca. Live transcription will be available. \n\n&nbs p\;\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn the building of Performance Study\, the performativ e utterance and its wedding to vocality/orality\, the words that can do\, is the cornerstone. If words can do things\, then what other things have t he capacity to do and what questions become more important and interesting when we decide not to hide our proclivities\, especially what we learn wh en we’re “doing” it\, so to speak? More nearly\, the questions we be gin with in this experimental performance lecture are: what that mouf do\, or\, what is a mouf study and what does it have to do with the elementary schism between the arts and the sciences? How are black dicks like words that are (re)arranged and given to (ful)fill and punctuate abundant\, synt actic horrors and in what ways do black dicks uncover and recover the erot ic (and purloined) thrust of the letters’ availability? How would one de scribe or write or speak this problematic? And\, most importantly\, what d oes thinking through the dissimulation of enfleshment\, fantasy\, and ador nment that is transgenderism’s excitation\, often reduced to the terms “trans/femme/woman\,” do for us in this matter? Does it even matter?\n \nAbout the speaker series curated by Dr. Qui Alexander:\n\nAs Trans studi es continues to emerge within a colonial\, capitalist and carceral academi c landscape\, Transgressing Disciplines seeks to offer a collective interv ention to interrupt\, agitate and transform how we engage with Trans studi es. This series invites conversations and collaborations with emerging Bla ck trans thinkers\, artists and cultural workers whose crafts transcend tr aditional modes of inquiry. Inspired by bell hooks’ mandate to transgres s—to go beyond a limit or boundary— traditional modes of teaching and learning\, this series aims to push scholars to reconsider not just what T rans studies is\, but what Trans studies does. In doing so\, we disrupt ex tractive academic norms to create scholarship that nourishes Black trans p eople and communities. Embracing both interdisciplinary and anti-carceral approaches to Trans studies\, Transgressing Disciplines recognizes Black t rans life as a site of knowledge production. Together\, we work to deepen our collective consciousness of how entanglements of race\, class and gend er shape our intellectual\, artistic and cultural work.\n\nSee past Transg ressing Disciplines events here. \n\nAbout the speaker:\n\n@​troizel(sh e/her//princess/babygirl/we) is black + trans + alive and that means more than these words can express.\n\nshe studied theater\, trans/gender/ism\, sexuality\, performance\, and some thing called blackness at universities called Emory and New York. she received her PhD in Performance Studies at one of them\, with a dissertation entitled black performance studies: quee r/trans experiments\, which brings the study methods of Black queer and tr ans artists and theorists to bear on Black Studies\, Performance Studies\, and their historical intermingling called black performance studies. she does this as a way to provide models for how we can perform together to tu rn out and transform our social assumptions.\n\nformerly: studio resident at Gallery Aferro in Newark\, NJ / teaching artist fellow at New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City / inaugural Museum Institute Scholar at Studio Museum in Harlem / alumna of the Hemispheric Institute for Perform ance &\; Politics’ New York Emerging Performers Program (EMERGENYC) / managing editor of Women &\; Performance: a journal of feminist theory / Visiting Assistant Professor in Visual Studies at Haverford College in Ardmore\, PA / co-president of NYU's Black Alumni Network\n\nFor more than 10 years\, troizel has worked in the form of theater\, performance\, crea tive writing\, critical essay\, and video to investigate the body\, the de sires for its re-presentations\, and its endurance capacities. Her work un folds where there is a fault line between what we think and what there is. In their performance and video works\, they stage their body as a materia l question called hottentot pluto\, as an embodied confrontation with our social scripts\, whether out in public\, gallery\, or academic spaces.\n\n Presently\, troizel is working on three creative projects: the e.g.g.: Eve /(trans)Gender/God(dess)\, a collection consisting of a one-act play\, sch olarly essays\, poetry and a sermon that mines Biblical narrative\, black trans documentation\, and performance theories of race\, gender\, and sexu ality\; a film work titled swamp of things lost &\; cunt\, an experimen tal time-lapse using assemblage for stagecraft\, puppetry\, divination\, a nd performance for video to slow and distill the anti-black/trans violence of the past and present to fast-forward into imagined futures\, queering notions of historicity and futurity\; and an ongoing zine and book binding series\, a colored trans girl’s notes on oblivion\, outfitted with a co llage of post-it notes\, poetry\, and polaroids.\n\notherwise\, you can ca tch her watching reality television\, pulling tarot\, sucking d*ck\, conte mplating law and divinity dual degree programs\, writing about Eve\, Zora Neale Hurston\, big black dicks\, or trans/sexual/labor\, OR teaching at t he new school\, cooper union\, online or in a museum\, OR being herself as her sister Rosed Serrano\, or in a park with collaborator Isa Hui Saldañ a and life sized paper mache eggs or climbing on scaffolding in Pleaser bo ots with Buffy Sierra or with Experimental School for Black Imagination\, an “anti-disciplinary black art school” conceived with comrade and fel low artist Zellá Vanié. 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