Embodied Politics: Repertoires for an intersectional reading of transgender and disability studies.

Supervisor/s: Zowie Davy, Fernando Fontes and Gracia Trujillo Barbadillo

Doctoral Programme: Human Rights in Contemporary Societies

This PhD research project intends to explore the relationship between disability studies and transgender studies by studying the intersections of body and self-constructs as related to lived experiences, social representations and the struggles to raise awareness of new political subjectivities and belongings.

This thesis will focus on theoretical challenges surrounding the political action and organization of feminist and trans* identities in order to provide situated knowledge about the dynamics of the transfeminist activism in the Madrilenian geopolitical context.