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Making Different Differences: Representation and Rights in Sexuality Activism
This paper argues that current iterations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights are limited by an overreliance on particular representations of sexuality, in which homosexuality is defined negatively through a binary of homosexual/heterosexual. The limits of these representations are explored in order to unpick the possibility of engaging in a form of sexuality politics that is grounded in difference rather than in sameness or opposition. The paper seeks to respond to Braidotti’s call for an “affirmative politics” that is open to forms of creative, future-oriented action and that might serve to answer some of the more common criticisms of current LGBTI rights activism
In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics and the Diasporic Dilemma
Dwelling, Distance, Detachment: Messy Migrant Lives
Dr. Martin F. Manalansan IV\u27s lecture examines how distancing and detachment are not new and they are not indicative of an exceptional moment of crisis such as the ongoing pandemic. Rather these affects are persistent and enduring atmospheric conditions among marginalized peoples such as undocumented immigrants. This is especially true particularly in migrant domiciles or places of residence based on journalistic and migration studies accounts. These so-called impossible, enmeshed, and chaotic dwelling situations can be productively unraveled through a framework of queer as mess. In other words, the talk offers a meditation on the queer potentials of this approach towards a critical understanding the so-called messy lives of undocumented migrants
Privatization, Marketization, and Neoliberalism—The Political Dynamics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket. By Gordon Mathews. New York: Routledge, 2000. vii, 228 pp. 24.99 (paper).
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