Hopkins Press Podcast 4.7: Emily Cousens on Wittig's Trans Feminist Potential

Today we talk with Emily Cousens, who is an assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Northeastern University, London, and their expertise focuses on trans feminist philosophy and history. They are also the UK lead for the Digital Transgender Archive. They are the author of Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave (Palgrave, 2023) which is the first book to explore the philosophical and intellectual contributions of trans individuals in the 1970s.

Emily Cousens has a new article in L'Esprit Créateur called “Subjectivity Without Sex? The Materialist Trans Feminist Potential in Monique Wittig’s Non-Fiction.”

This is part of a special issue of L'Esprit Créateur devoted to Monique Wittig, and this whole issue is available free to all because L'Esprit Créateur is part of our Subscribe to Open (S2O) Open Access initiative. Click through to learn more about this great new initiative, and especially to read some exciting new scholarship about Monique Wittig.