Another fantastic episode in which we bring together two scholars who work in different, but related fields: Han and Claude – join in to listen them discuss art, literature and music as well as their personal relation to queer and trans theory!
Claude Kempen (they/them) is a trans nonbinary writer and academic from Berlin. They hold a BA in Islamic Studies from Free University Berlin and an MA in Gender Studies from SOAS. Currently, they are a PhD student at the University of Melbourne where they write about nonbinary lived realities through memoirs from the community. They are interested in Queer Theory, Transgender and Death Studies. Their research has explored anti-Muslim racism in pornography, queer movements in Jordan, medical gatekeeping against trans people in Germany, and encountering death as a trans person. They recently completed an internship at a Berlin funeral home and are in the process of publishing their first book titled “Phantomnippel”.
Han Reardon-Smith (they/them) is a queer-trans white colonial-settler flutist, electronic musician, improviser, radio producer, community organiser, writer, researcher, and thinker living on the unceded land of the Yuggera Ugarapul, and Turrbal Peoples. Their music explores the sweetness in unsettling difficulty, and reveals the monsters lurking in traditionally beautiful instruments. Their work and thinking are rooted in queer and feminist collaborative and contaminative co-creation with other soundmakers and artmakers, physical and social environments, ecologies, histories, and narratives, exploring the possibilities of making-kin and finding agency within community. cyberBanshee is a musical haunting/invocation rooted in the understanding that the musicker is never alone. Han is a postdoctoral research associate at Macquarie University, supporting Wiradjuri trans-nonbinary Professor Sandy O’Sullivan’s ARC Future Fellowship project, Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists.
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