Important update: Nazbah Tom will be presenting, but Hil Malatino can no longer attend. Subscribe to the Simpson Center newsletter and stay tuned for an announcement about a future event with Hil Malatino.

Join Imagining Trans Futures for a conversation between Nazbah Tom and Hil Malatino about the practices and dreams of trans and Two Spirit care and community building in the face of long-haul trans survival.

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Nazbah Tom will start off with an introduction about their history of how they came into their current somatic practice (education, training, and alignment with their cultural upbringing). They will offer some examples of community work that they contributed to while working with the Native American Health Center in the San Francisco and Oakland area. Also, they would like to mention the movement and innovation of Two Spirit practices within their own Dine community as well as across other communities, in so-called "urban" and "reserve" areas. These all include various aspects of trans care as 2SLGBTQIA community are impacted by this work across generations. They will then close out their portion of their talk with their hopes and dreams for ongoing work in our communities.

Hil Malatino, “Weathering: Slow Arts of Trans Endurance.” In a moment of profound and widespread transantagonism articulated within both liberal-centrist and alt-right political formations, how do trans subjects cultivate arts of endurance? In an historical moment that seems to demand continuous reactive defense, how are trans subjects building capacities to slow down, bear with, and endure? How do practices of collective care support the cultivation of such capacities amidst an urgent now? How are artists figuring the slow and mostly unspectacular art of long-haul trans survival?

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Nazbah Tom (Diné), somatic practitioner/poet. They are published in Lambda Literary Award winner Love After The End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. As a somatic practitioner they use conversation, breath work, gestural work, bodywork, and somatic skills to guide individuals and groups through a process of embodied transformation.

Hil Malatino is the Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State. He is the author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (Minnesota 2022), Trans Care (Minnesota 2020) which won the Publishing Triangle Award and was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience. He is also co-editor (alongside Cam Awkward-Rich) of the t4t issue of Trans Studies Quarterly. His work has been published in Signs, Hypatia, TSQ, Rhizomes, The New Inquiry, Ms. Magazine, and many other journals and edited volumes.

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