| Author(s) | Perry Zurn, Matthew Ferguson |
| Abstract | This article describes an interdisciplinary project documenting the history of transgender life at American University. Entitled “The AU Trans Experience: Then and Now”, it traces transgender student groups, events, and activism on campus from the 1990s to the present through archival research and oral histories. The authors link the project to resisting the epistemic injustice of suppressed trans narratives and community knowledge. By exhibiting these historical materials publicly, they render visible AU’s trans communities across generations and equip current students to situate themselves within a lineage of trans inclusion efforts. Students’ oral histories reveal rich philosophical dimensions as well, practicing phenomenological listening regarding gender and embodied experience. The authors contend recovering and sharing local trans history is a form of public philosophy that grounds philosophical work in community. This fulfills commitments of the growing field of trans philosophy to be accountable to and illuminative of transgender people’s lives. The project demonstrates the importance of trans history for self-understanding and collective vision. This content was generated by artificial intelligence using the text of the original work. |
| Website Name | Blog of the APA |
| Date Published | June 10, 2020 |
| Keywords | Archival research, Oral histories, Epistemic injustice, Community knowledge, Embodied experience, Public philosophy, Trans philosophy, Self-understanding This content was generated by artificial intelligence using the text of the original work. |
| URL | https://blog.apaonline.org/2020/06/10/doing-trans-philosophy-as-public-philosophy/ |
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