Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil by Nessette Falu
Thu, Feb 22, 2024
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
Room 9206
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Demonstrating how the racist and heteronormative underpinnings of gynecology erases Black lesbian subjecthood through mental, emotional, and physical traumas, Falu explores the daily resistance and abolitionist practices of worth-making that claim and sustain Black queer identity and living. Falu rethinks the medicalization of race, sex, and gender in Brazil and elsewhere while offering a new perspective on Black queer life through well-being grounded in relationships, socioeconomic struggles, the erotic, and freedom.
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Nessette Falu (pronouns she/her) is a Black queer feminist anthropologist and assistant professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research lab, Gxnecologx Justice Lab, designs evidence-based multimedia resources and visual materials for community engagement about Black queer reproductive health and justice such as medical illustrations. Her current manuscript examines through a Black feminist lens the extensive sexual violence by gynecologists in the U.S. and its sociohistorical ties to the history of medicine and slavery that serves to undermine racial and gendered vulnerabilities of patients. She partners with allgo, a POC queer organization in Austin to develop community-based participatory research as part of a mentoring program with the Dell Medical School and Population Health Department at UT Austin. She enjoyed a seventeen-year clinical career as a Physician Assistant in neurosurgery, internal medicine, HIV-specialty, hematology-oncology, and pain management. She loves lakes, rivers, and the ocean.
This event is free and open to the public.
This event is hosted by Center for the Study of Women and Society and co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities, the Center for LGBTQ Studies, and the CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology and Critical Psychology departments.
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