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

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

Introduction: New Filipino American Scholarship on the Marcos Era

Introduction: New Filipino American Scholarship on the Marcos Er

Introduction:Trans Travels and Trans Trajectories

In recent years we have seen a new phenomenon in Africa’s long history of migration: the journeying of people fleeing persecution, violence and discrimination on the grounds of their gender identity/expression. This chapter terms these people ‘gender refugees’—people who can make claims to refugee status, fleeing their countries of origin based on the persecution of their gender identity. ‘Gender refugees’ are different from sexual refugees in that their issues pertain to their gender identity and birth-assigned sex being perceived as incongruent. Drawing on life story interviews carried out between 2013 and 2015 with gender refugees, living in South Africa, along with documentary and archival work, this chapter explores how, when, and under what circumstances transgender-identified individuals from countries in Africa are made to journey, forced to seek refuge not just elsewhere but in South Africa specifically. This chapter presents some of the gender refugees that have journeyed to South Africa, considers how the term ‘transgender’ travels and provides a brief overview of transgender visibility on the African continent currently.</p