DCC: Ellen Samuels, From Anomaly To Alarm: Trans and Crip Bodies in the Security State (Ellen Samuels)

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall First Floor (Accessibility) / Free and open to the public

Citizenship on the Edge. Sex/Gender/Race: 2016-2017 Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism Program.

in partnership with the Alice Paul Center

 

FROM ANOMALY TO ALARM: Trans and Crip Bodies in the Security State

A 2015 POLICY CHANGE by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, from calling certain travelers “anomalies” to calling them “alarms,” signals the emergence of a new surveillance of travelling bodies that do not fit into normalized expectations of gender and ability. Hidden beneath discourses of security, we find definitions of citizenship that rely upon biological notions of “safe” and legible citizen-bodies.

 

For more information on Ellen Samuels and a link to her paper: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/event/ellen-samuels

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