The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by The Queer and Trans Anti-Fascism research cluster) presents:
“Escape Velocity: Notes on Women’s Sports”
Dr. Jennifer Doyle
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday September 24th
12-1pm
Buchanan Tower, Room 323
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm
ABOUT Dr. Jennifer Doyle
Dr. Jennifer Doyle
Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English and Cooperating Faculty in Art at UC Riverside. She is the author of Shadow of My Shadow (2024), Campus Sex/Campus Security (2015), Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013), and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2006). With Jeanne Vaccaro, she co-curated a large group exhibition, Scientia Sexualis, and co-edited its accompanying catalogue. She is President of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present and is deeply involved with the interdisciplinary arts space Human Resources Los Angeles.
ABSTRACT
A reflection on the state of women’s sports, as a category and a practice. This talk revolves around the harassment and exclusion of the great South African runner Caster Semenya from her events and opens out to reckon with the rapid development of women’s sports as it coincides with the consolidation of fascism and a broad assault on trans life.
