Care with queer identities : "psy" in (de)construction

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This presentation explores the role of “psy” discourse in thinking care and vulnerability as resistance strategies in the context of “anti-gender” politics. Positioned at the intersection of psychoanalytical knowledge, situated epistemologies, and transdisciplinarity within a queer feminist perspective, RESIST, I reflect on how care can subvert epistemic violences inherent in these debates. Drawing on psychoanalytic sensitivity to unconscious affects, I aim to rethink the tensions of transdisciplinary dialogues, particularly when psychoanalysis intersects with other theoretical frameworks.

As a psychoanalytic researcher working outside my traditional discipline, I position myself “in between,” navigating the fear and vulnerability associated with this posture. One hallmark of this position is the fear of pathologization, which risks erasing psychoanalytic methods within transdisciplinary research. Psychoanalysis, historically violent towards gender and sexual minorities, remains embedded in a cis- and heterocentric paradigm marked by pathologization. Yet, recent transformations invite a rethinking of its critical and transformative potential. 

This presentation asks: How do we rethink “to care” when we search about ‘anti–gender’ violence? By interrogating the role of "psy" discourse—both its complicities in violence and its possibilities for renewal—I propose an ethics of care that resists silencing and pathologization. This approach seeks to reimagine transdisciplinary research practices by centering vulnerability as a form of resistance and amplifying marginalized and subaltern voices.