DRAG, The international Tranvestite Quaterly, 1973
The event aims to create spaces for a plurality of approaches towards trans history, trans archives, and connections with the past, that make and unmake trans subjectivities and contemporary trans struggles. It borrows its name from a neologism, used by the artist Chris Vargas, “trans hirstory,” as an gender neutral addendum to the feminist project of “herstory.” All too often, the past has been transformed into a hegemonic narrative that disqualifies the mere possibility of gender variant lives (Hacke, 2023). Archives submitted to a series of curation and indexing choices gradually converge towards the highlighting of lives conforming to current norms and standards. Scholars of queer and subaltern studies have learned to read between the lines of normative documents, and to reveal what was once present and is now silenced. While a struggle against erasure is a never- ending one, it seems that gender-variance and queer sexualities were too present to go unnoticed (Feinberg, 1996).
Conferences will be held in French and English.