15 October 2025, 7 – 8.30 PM – THIS WEDNESDAY!
Seminarraum 7 (1st floor), Kolingasse 14–16, 1090 Wien
Join us for a conversation about Juliana Gleeson’s Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation, a bold examination of intersex liberation. Author Juliana Gleeson will be in conversation with Tinou Ponzer, chairperson of VIMÖ (Verein Intergeschlechtlicher Menschen Österreich) and co-editor of Inter*Pride: Perspektiven aus einer weltweiten Menschenrechtsbewegung.
The conversation will be in English, with no sign language interpretation. The room and nearby toilets are wheelchair-accessible.
Hermaphrodite Logic traces how intersex activists countered medical intervention and pathologisation with wit, collective struggle, and political reason. Gleeson argues that intersex people have been harmed not merely for therapeutic reasons but to manage professional and parental anxieties – revealing how medical power operates to enforce sex norms. Her critical history celebrates a movement that challenges this power and ruptures normative conceptions of gender and sexuality, offering insights for contemporary liberationist organising.
The conversation will explore the development of the intersex movement, its challenges and strategies, and the alliances that shape its ongoing struggles for bodily autonomy and self-determination.
Moderated by Boka En (Gender Research Office, University of Vienna / AG Inter*Trans_Nonbinary, Gender Studies Association Austria)
Organised by the Gender Research Office (University of Vienna) and the AG Inter*Trans_Nonbinary (Gender Studies Association Austria) in cooperation with the Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies (University of Vienna) and the Department of Philosophy (University of Vienna)
