Breakout Session: Transforming Feminist Motherhood through Graphic Imagery
Location
Witter's Conference Room (4440 Booth Library)
Start Date
27-9-2025 11:00 AM
End Date
27-9-2025 11:55 AM
Description
Élodie Durand's 2023 graphic novel, Transitions: A Mother's Journey, follows a family through their struggles with a teenager's gender transition. As Durand presents it, the person who changes the most is Anne, the mother of the transitioning teen. This beautiful and thoughtful comic uses space, color, and line to represent Anne"s transition from angry skeptic to trans ally, providing effective models for speaking back to "gender critical" feminism (i.e., TERF thinking).
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Breakout Session: Transforming Feminist Motherhood through Graphic Imagery
Witter's Conference Room (4440 Booth Library)
Élodie Durand's 2023 graphic novel, Transitions: A Mother's Journey, follows a family through their struggles with a teenager's gender transition. As Durand presents it, the person who changes the most is Anne, the mother of the transitioning teen. This beautiful and thoughtful comic uses space, color, and line to represent Anne"s transition from angry skeptic to trans ally, providing effective models for speaking back to "gender critical" feminism (i.e., TERF thinking).
Comments
Dr. Jeannie Ludlow
Jeannie Ludlow is Professor of English and director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Eastern Illinois University, where she also teaches for the minors in Health Humanities and Latinx Studies. She publishes about abortion, reproductive justice, and contemporary literature and popular culture. This presentation is part of a longer work forthcoming in the journal Humanities.