Wednesday, May 6, 2020 4pm to 5:30pm
About this Event
Free EventTalk by C. Riley Snorton
Professor of English Language and Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of Chicago
In 1858, gospel composer, attorney, and inventor Charles Crozat Converse coined the gender neutral pronoun “thon,” a contraction of “that one.” Thon is one of over 100 gender neutral pronouns offered in the 19th and 20th centuries. Charting a political course inspired by thon’s etymology, this talk considers the implications of nonbinary as a when in addition to being a what.
This talk is part of the spring focus of the Feminist Futures initiative, “Beyond the Bathroom Wars: What is the Future of Transgender Politics?”
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