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Liminal Lives: Trans Between Weimar and Nazi Germany

The story of trans life under Nazism is anticipated as tragic. Following the hard-won recognitions of gay and lesbian victims of the Holocaust and in the maelstrom of contemporary global attacks on trans existence, scholarly and public investments in this history are at their apex—provoking debates in the German Bundestag and libel cases. Yet the content of this history remains largely unknown. Using granular archival research, Zavier Nunn’s first book, Liminal Lives: Trans between Weimar and Nazi Germany, explores the micro and macro registers of how everyday trans life was experienced, policed, and cut short across the Weimar and Nazi regimes, sometimes in surprising—but always uneven—ways. This talk sketches out the contours and stakes of this monograph, the first definitive work on trans life before and after the Nazi’s rise to power.











When: Thu., Apr. 10, 2025 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Pl.
646-437-4202
Price: $10
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The story of trans life under Nazism is anticipated as tragic. Following the hard-won recognitions of gay and lesbian victims of the Holocaust and in the maelstrom of contemporary global attacks on trans existence, scholarly and public investments in this history are at their apex—provoking debates in the German Bundestag and libel cases. Yet the content of this history remains largely unknown. Using granular archival research, Zavier Nunn’s first book, Liminal Lives: Trans between Weimar and Nazi Germany, explores the micro and macro registers of how everyday trans life was experienced, policed, and cut short across the Weimar and Nazi regimes, sometimes in surprising—but always uneven—ways. This talk sketches out the contours and stakes of this monograph, the first definitive work on trans life before and after the Nazi’s rise to power.

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