Prof. Miqqi Alicia Gilbert

Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, Ph.D. aka Michael A. Gilbert is Full Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto, Canada. S/he has published two novels, a monograph entitled Coalescent Argumentation, as well a popular book on argument, How to Win an Argument, now in a third edition. More recently s/he has been publishing scholarly articles in the areas of Argumentation Theory and Gender Theory in academic journals, including an essay in Hypatia in 2009. Miqqi Alicia is a life-long cross dresser and an activist in the international transgender community. S/he is the book review editor and regular columnist for Transgender Tapestry, the magazine of the The International Foundation for Gender Education, a recipient, in 2007, of an IFGE Trinity Award, and Director of Fantasia Fair. S/he has presented workshops at numerous trans events including Fantasia Fair, Southern Comfort, and First Event. Her website is located at: http://www.yorku.ca/gilbert/tg/tg_world.html

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Prof. Gilbert presents:

Fantasy Girl vs. Reality Woman

A trans person has gone through major changes in personal identity, including the way in which the individual relates to the world, and how the world relates to the individual. This session will focus on your stories about this change, and how it is experienced. The differences between TSs who change permanently and CDs who migrate back and forth will also form a focus. The discussion will form part of the presenter's government funded ongoing research project.