The Cost of Colonialism: A Global Health Crisis for Trans and Queer Communities (2023-03-22)

Abstract

A conversation with Dr. Mehrub Moiz Awan and Dean Jeremy Youde, moderated by Professor Devaleena Das. Dr. Mehrub Moiz Awan is a Pakistani khwajasira* rights activist, performance artist, and global policy practitioner with a strong interest in postcoloniality, indigenous wisdom, and the intersections of class, race, gender and sexuality. She was a Fulbright scholar at George Washington University, and is a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Global Health Policy. *Khwajasira is an indigenous South Asian gender-spirituality and gender-identity recognized by the Government of Pakistan as a gender separate from man and woman. Dr. Jeremy Youde is the Dean of UMD's College of Art, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science and is an internationally-recognized expert on global health politics and the former chair of the Global Health Section of the International Studies Association. Dr. Devaleena Das is an associate professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her intellectual and pedagogical labor focuses on transnational analysis of gender, sexuality, race, and human bodies across the borders of cultures, disciplines and geography.