June 1, 2023 'Fabulous Homebodies: Travesti Reworkings of Domestic Fantasy'
Presented by Joseph Shaikewitz

Around 1945, in a clandestine photography studio somewhere in Buenos Aires, a small circle of travestis (loosely, trans femmes) produced a group of portraits that, by turns, perform, parody, and pervert a midcentury paragon of housewifery. Across the extant group of snapshots from this session, which today form part of the Archivo de la Memoria Trans (Archive of Trans Memory) in Argentina, the sitters retrace the enduringly violent contours of visuality to play out alternative worlds of travesti domesticity, bourgeois comfort, and feminine ease—complete with their material implications. This talk brings these early visual traces of genderqueer life and camaraderie into a longer, wayward history of travesti-trans dreaming and aesthetic (re)imaginings.


Thursday June 1, 2023 at 12:30 PM at the Stanford Humanities Center Board Room. This is an in-person event. Food will be served. 

The Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies Colloquium is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, made possible by support from an anonymous donor honoring the work of former SHC Director John Bender, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
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