“We can be beautiful / without cutting ourselves into pieces.“
Lesbian and Trans Intersections in the Poetry of Yanyi and Joy Young
The presentation takes place as part of the MA seminar on Queer Theory and Fiction (Department of English and American Studies) on Thursday, 20.01.22 at 4:15 pm on Zoom. The session is open to all interested students and lecturers. Please send a brief email to linda.hess@philhist.uni-augsburg.de to receive the link for the session. The presentation will be in English.
A.M. Schneider (they/them/theirs) is a scholar and educator whose MA thesis (Goethe University Frankfurt) focuses on the intersections of lesbian and trans communities. They are also a poet, Yoga teacher, and writer who brings together topics of transness, queerness, chronic pain, and invisible disability. They recently published a guide on non-binary genders and offer workshops for organizations who want to create safer spaces for LGBTQ+ people.