Speaker: Dr. Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot, Trinity College
Friday, April 10
Noon–1 p.m.
via Zoom
Free and open to all, registration required.
The Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Washington State University invites you to its Spring 2026 Public Research Symposium featuring Dr. Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot. Nadj is an assistant professor of anthropology at Trinity College and a longtime abolitionist, transformative justice, and harm reduction organizer based in NYC and Hartford, CT. Their work can be found in GLQ, City and Society, Design and Culture, and The Abusable Past, among other places.
Beginning from the premise that people who lead criminalized lives have a lot to teach the rest of us about surviving and evading repression, this talk offers the framework of outlaw solidarities as a way to think outside and beyond the law. Drawing on ethnographic research with criminalized trans and cis women who use drugs in NYC, Nadj will show how outlawhood becomes a resource for collective self-fashioning and a mode through which criminalized women reject their conscription as wanton, incorrigible, and sick, and offer revolutionary, speculative, and mad horizons of transformation, abundance, self-determination, and repair.
