Gender Transition between Life and Death

Psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS) and co-founder and trustee Pulsion: The International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, New York. Her single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize, Other Press: 2003), Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: 2010) and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge: 2017). She edited two volumes with Manya Steinkoler: Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can’t (Routledge: 2015) and Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: 2016). Most recently, she published with Chris Christian Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Gradiva Award for best edited collection and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize; Routledge: 2019.) Her collection (with Manya Steinkoler) Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* won the Gradiva Award for Best Edited Collection (Routledge, 2023.)