Dora Suarez, Author at Public Seminar

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Social Construction Theory and the Transgender Turn

An Enlightened Conversation

May 29, 2018 • by Dora Suarez

In the introduction to her groundbreaking book Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective of Sexual Difference, Patricia Gherovici states: “Trans people’s experiences may force us not just to re-evaluate our notions of gender, but also to reconsider how we think about other forms of difference as it unravels identity as a construction.” ...

Social Construction Theory and the Transgender Turn

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Postcolonial Investigations and the Role of Necessary Discontinuity

A Review of Iain Chambers’ Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorized Modernities

October 24, 2017 • by Dora Suarez

In Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorized Modernities, Iain Chambers is preoccupied with the critical foreclosure that impedes our perception of the ways contemporary migration, as well as “the racism that precedes and accompanies it,” is not abnormal or exceptional.[1] In face of the waves of violence that convulse the landscape of the ...

Postcolonial Investigations and the Role of Necessary Discontinuity

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Biopolitics And The Compulsion Of Being-Born

July 11, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Bringing the voices of Chiara Bottici and Paul B. Preciado together, my aim is to show there is a way in which their respective reflections on the nature of the biopolitical turn could be seen as complementary. I begin ...

Biopolitics And The Compulsion Of Being-Born

Education

On Unity and Feminist Struggle: A Response to Judith Butler

May 18, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. It has now been more than twenty years since Judith Butler wrote the first edition of Gender Trouble, and the observations that she highlighted in its first chapter still resonate with us today, even as we ponder their significance ...

On Unity and Feminist Struggle: A Response to Judith Butler

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Pornography in the Political Domain: A Citizen is Being Beaten

May 11, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

It is election time. I am almost done with the course “Gender and Domination.” However, the echoes of conversations started in that class are proving to be difficult to silence. Among the questions that this seminar has left lingering, the one that has stayed with me the most has to ...

Pornography in the Political Domain: A Citizen is Being Beaten

Education

The Earthquake, the Compass, and the Use of Genealogy

March 1, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. How do survivors react to an earthquake? Fortunately, I do not have first-hand phenomenological experience of such events, so I can only guess. The readings from this past week gave me a good opportunity to do just that, ...

The Earthquake, the Compass, and the Use of Genealogy

Education

Solidarity, Hierarchy, and the Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in Feminist Discourse

February 12, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

This post is in relation to Gender and Domination. In the first chapter of her book titled “Gender,” Tina Chanter undertakes the task of exposing “the invisible whiteness of mainstream feminist theory.” To this end, she proceeds to explain how the feminist motto adopted back in the 70s, “the personal is ...

Solidarity, Hierarchy, and the Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in Feminist Discourse

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The Politics of Disinviting

On education and engagement with ideas

December 2, 2015 • by Dora Suarez

The tactic of disinviting controversial speakers has become increasingly common across college campuses. Consider, for example, what happened to the Iranian-born human rights activist Maryam Namazie (a prominent anti-racist activist and a central committee member of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran), who was ...

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