Paper short abstract:

In my presentation I draw attention to the importance of provincializing the normative binary gender order for a reimagination of european decolonial anthropology by presemting negotiations of intersectional realities of trans* lifes and bodies.

Paper long abstract:

Naturalizing the normative binary gender order is deeply interwoven with racialisation of gender and sexuality in colonial practices (Lugones 2007) and as thus forms part of processes of europeanization. However still in anthropological approaches of decolonizing knowledge and practices, the normative binary gender order is not taken into account as an important field of action. On the contrary it is reaffirmed and trans* and inter* studies are not taken for granted. But gendering processes and discourses about gender diverse lifes and bodies play a crucial role in questions of belonging, time and space and are always the scene of intersectional negotiations about normalisation and othering within the normative binary gender order.

Therefore I consider a critical trans* studies approach as an important perspective in reimagining european decolonial anthropology. In my presentation I offer a perspective - based on my (auto)ethnographic research on trans* lifes in Germany - on how trans* bodies on the one hand are pathologized and instrumentalized, but how on the other hand the normative binary gender order can be provincialized (Chakrabarty 2000) through narrations of the intersectional realities of trans* lifes and trans* bodies.