Alexandre Baril, Dr.
Alexandre Baril (Ph.D. in Women’s Studies) ist Assistant Professor am Institut für Sozialarbeit der Universität Ottawa und spezialisiert auf Diversität, einschließlich Diversität in Hinblick auf Sexualität, Geschlecht, Behinderung und Sprache. Alexandra Barils interdisziplinärer Hintergrund schließt zehn Jahre in Philosophie/Ethik, einen PhD in Women’s Studies und zwei Postdoc-Fellowships ein: in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies an der Wesleyan-Universität (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council/SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship) und in Politikwissenschaft an der Dalhousie-Universität ((Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship). Artikel von ihm sind unter anderem erschienen in: Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy; Feminist Review; TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly; Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice; Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies; Annual Review of Critical Psychology; Medicine Anthropology Theory; Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies; Canadian Journal of Disability Studies; Disability & Society; Recherches féministes; Enfances, familles, générations: Revue interdisciplinaire sur la famille contemporaine; und Recherches sociologiques & anthropologiques. Seine intersektionale Forschung bringt Gender, Feminist, Queer, Trans und Disability/Crip Studies in Dialog mit der Soziologie des Körpers, der Gesundheit und von sozialen Bewegungen.
Cripping Trans Studies and Transing Crip Studies: Transness and Disability
Keynote - Wednesday, 12.09. 16:00 - 17:00 ZHG 011Quantitative studies about trans communities, while not focused on disability, nonetheless show that rates of disability and chronic illness are much higher in trans communities than in the general population. In their US survey of more than 27,000 trans participants, James et al. (2016: 57) show that 39% of respondents were living with a disability or chronic illness. A Canadian study of more than 400 trans participants showed that 55% of respondents were living with a disability or chronic illness (Bauer et al. 2012: 10). However, while the number of trans people living with disability is high, theoretical literature on this topic remains scarce and no empirical research has been produced to specifically interrogate the intersections between transness and disability and cisgenderism/transphobia and ableism. The two questions at the heart of my presentation are: Why is the overlap between trans and disabled experiences and embodiment unthinkable? Why is the experience of transness so often excluded from the disability category? I argue that there is heuristic value in theorizing transness and disability from an intersectional perspective and in mobilizing theoretical frameworks produced in critical disability/crip studies for trans studies. To do so, I first review how scholars in health and disability studies historically theorize two main models of disability: medical and social. The medical model interprets disability as an individual problem to be cured, while the social model presents ableist society as the cause of disabled people’s suffering. I argue that similar paradigms have been used to examine trans realities. Following feminist disability scholars and queer crip scholars who demonstrate the limits of both models and argue for more complex approaches to understanding disability, I then explore a socio-subjective model of disability and apply it to trans issues. This socio-subjective model takes both social oppression and subjective experience into account to describe the complexity of disabled and trans people’s intersecting realities.
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