Encounters between Intersectional Feminisms and Translation & Interpreting

Since 2016, the European Colloquium on Gender and Translation has been periodically offering an overview of the latest trends in translation and interpreting research and practice in its interaction with gender, with gatherings in Valencia, Naples, Valencia, Bergamo and Ferrara. 

By placing an emphasis on intersectionality, the 6th edition of this Colloquium proposes to overcome traditional approaches to gender as a monolithic entity, to embrace more nuanced understandings of gender as a multidimensional category that necessarily intersects with other layers of oppression and discrimination such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, (dis)ability, age, class or religion, to name a few. 

Recent publications around intersectional narratives and their relation to translation, such as Corine Tachritis’ Translation and Race (2024) or Emily Rose’s Translating Trans Identity (2022), are inspiring examples inviting us to explore gender from a more thorough perspective that considers how racism, cis-hetero-sexism, classism, ableism, ageism, etc. are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another.