"The politics of gender and identity": Finn Mackay in conversation with Jana Bacevic

Mackay, Finn

Abstract

Can we find a way through and even around the messy gender wars currently raging on- and offline? In this wide-ranging and timely conversation with Jana Bacevic, sociologist and activist Finn Mackay provides important theoretical background and context to the “gender wars” or “TERF wars” – the fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female masculinities as a lens, Mackay explores the current generational shift that is refusing the previous assumed fixity of sex, gender, and sexual identity.

Finn Mackay is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England and completed a PhD in the Centre for Gender & Violence Research at the University of Bristol. A longstanding feminist activist, Finn founded the London Feminist Network in 2004; and is a frequent media commentator on feminist and LGBTQI+ topics. Finn’s latest book "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars" was published last year by Bloomsbury. drfinnmackay.co.uk / twitter.com/Finn_Mackay

Jana Bacevic is assistant professor at Durham University, UK, and member of the editorial board of The Philosopher. Her work is in social theory, philosophy of science, and political economy of knowledge production, with particular emphasis on the relationship between epistemological, moral, and political elements. janabacevic.net / twitter.com/jana_bacevic

• Digital Artefact Type: Video
• Acceptance Date: Apr 5, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Apr 5, 2022
• Publication Date: Apr 5, 2022
• Deposit Date: Apr 20, 2022
• Keywords: masculinities; trans; queer; gender
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9365815
• Related Public URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkcwDnG6vdE
• External URL: https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/events