Trans Awareness Week 2025 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carmen Alvaro Jarrin

Transgender Awareness Week 2025 Keynote Speaker, featuring Dr. Carmen Alvaro Jarrin.

Dr. Carmen Alvaro Jarrín received their Ph.D. from Duke University and they are Associate Professor of Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross. Their research explores the imbrication of medicine, the body and inequality in Brazil, with foci on plastic surgery and trans/travesti activism. They are the author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil (University of California Press), which explored the eugenic underpinnings of raciological thought among plastic surgeons, and the aesthetic hierarchies of beauty that reinforce racial inequality in Brazil. They are also co-editor of two collections of essays: Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping and Replacement (Berghahn Books), and Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair and Resistance in Brazil (Rutgers University Press).

Transgender Awareness Week, held annually from November 13 - 19, helps increase understanding about transgender people and the issues members of the community face. Transgender Awareness Week takes place the week before Trans Day of Remembrance, held every year on November 20. Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the trans community by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories and experiences, and advancing advocacy around issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community.

Date and time: Tuesday, November 18th from 2pm - 3:20pm
Location: BackBays BC (Student Center, first floor)