Author Talk | Sex Isn’t Real

In this history of the current high-stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, University of Pennsylvania historian Beans Velocci follows scientists and clinicians from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century to demonstrate how the sorting of bodies into male and female persists not despite but because of sex’s incoherence. Velocci will be in conversation with Colby Gordon, Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.
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