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Course Catalogue WS 2024/25

Transfeminist resistance

Type:
Theory seminar
Semester:
WS 25/26
Target group
Main course / Diploma 2
Requirement
Seminar language will be mostly English/Dinglish, most texts will be in English.

Dates - place & time

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28.10.2527.01.26TuesdayWöchentlich17:00 - 19:00Heumarkt 14, H.3.26
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Start28.10.25
End27.01.26
DayTuesday
TurnusWöchentlich
from-to17:00 - 19:00
LocationHeumarkt 14, H.3.26

Seminar description

»Maybe transfeminism is a placeholder for something that’s still to be thought.«

(McKenzie Wark)


Transantagonism, antifeminism, and antigenderism have become one of the main languages of the global far right. Moral panics and politics of fear surrounding trans_gender issues have fueled fascization processes and authoritarian drifts in many places. At the same time, antiracist travesti- and transfeminist practice counters fascization with a refusal to concede to cisheteronormativity, with mutual aid practices, and an insistence on physical self-determination. What are transfeminist answers to fascist threats? What does current transfeminist antifascist organizing look like?


Understanding transfeminism as an antifascist practice, we will read and analyze theories of fascization and transfeminist texts and manifestos that go beyond questions of representation or identity and stay suspicious of categorizations.

Student office

Student Office

Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Claudia Warnecke

Heumarkt 14, 50667 Köln

+49 221 20189 - 194 /119 / 187 / 249
studoffice@khm.de


Opening hours:   Mondays + Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. + Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

For enquiries or appointments, please call us, Mon - Thu 9.30 to 1 p.m., or send us an e-mail.


Summer semester 2025

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Apr. 14, 2025 until Jul. 25, 2025


Winter semester 2025/26

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Oct. 20, 2025 until Feb. 13, 2026

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