ABSTRACT
Professor Namaste teaches at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montréal. She is the author of Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions and Imperialism (Toronto: Women’s Press, 2005), C’était du spectacle! L’histoire des artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985 (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005) and Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000). She has also been active in establishing community-based health services for transsexuals in Montréal.
