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Aren Aizura’s talk today has had to be cancelled as Aren has come down sick this morning.<br>
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Apologies,<br>
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fran<br>
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on 29/07/13 3:33 PM, Fran Martin at <a href="f.martin@unimelb.edu.au">f.martin@unimelb.edu.au</a> wrote:<br>
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Dear all,<br>
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A reminder about this talk by one of our alumni this Thursday:<br>
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Dr Aren Aizura:<br>
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</b></span><font size="5"><span style="font-size:16pt">Beyond Queering the Chain of Care: Affective Feminizations, Biological Investments<br>
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</b></span><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Thursday August 1, 1pm – 2:30pm<br>
Microbiology 124 (Thomas Cherry Theatrette)<br>
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</font><font face="Arial Narrow">Martin Manalansan observed in 2007 that we need to "queer" the chain of care—by which he meant transnational care work economies that naturalize and undervalue the labors of women of color. Not only women are subject to transnational
care work economies. But what are the implications of this observation? What forms of racialized gendering enable all kinds of bodies to perform queered affective labors? What gendered, sexual and racialized social relations are taking shape through such affective
labour practices? This paper reads practices of care work in Thai gender reassignment clinics against theories of orientalism and self-orientalism, affective labour and biopolitical subjectivity, to provoke affective labor theory to “queer” itself.<br>
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<b>Aren Aizura</b> is Assistant Professor in Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. His research focuses on how biopolitical technologies of race, gender, transnationality, medicalization and political economy shape and are shaped by transgender
and queer bodies. He particularly focuses on South East Asia. He is the editor of the
<i>Transgender Studies Reader 2</i> (Routledge) and has published widely in books and journals including
<i>Inter-Asia Cultural Studies</i>, <i>Asian Studies Review</i>, <i>Transgender Migrations</i> (Routledge, 2011),
<i>Queer Bangkok</i> (Hong Kong University Press, 2011), and <i>Trans Feminist Perspectives</i> (Temple UP, 2012). He was awarded his PhD in the Cultural Studies Program at the University of Melbourne in 2009.<br>
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</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size:8pt">Dr Fran Martin<br>
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies<br>
School of Culture and Communication<br>
University of Melbourne 3010<br>
Australia<br>
<a href="f.martin@unimelb.edu.au">f.martin@unimelb.edu.au</a><br>
+ 613 8344 5486<br>
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Dr Fran Martin<br>
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies<br>
School of Culture and Communication<br>
University of Melbourne<br>
Victoria 3010<br>
Australia<br>
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+613 8344 5486<br>
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<a href="f.martin@unimelb.edu.au">f.martin@unimelb.edu.au</a><br>
<a href="http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/about/people/academic/fran-martin">http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/about/people/academic/fran-martin</a>
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