This session on queer sex workers will stage a conversation among activists and academics from diverse institutional locations to help facilitate as open and critical a dialogue as possible.
Read moreIn this session legal scholar Katherine Franke discusses her recent book, Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality (NYU Press, 2015), with David Eng. The book’s description: The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement’s campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to […]
Read moreAmong other things, the queer critique of the marriage equality movement and the dismissal of gay marriage as a homonormative aspiration obscures the longstanding and highly productive relation that exists between homosexuality and the couple form. Since at least the 1930s, when the widespread acceptance of divorce first disturbed the ideological foundations of marriage, gays […]
Read moreOn June 25th, 2015 Jennicet Gutiérrez interrupted President Barack Obama’s White House Pride Reception. Gutiérrez demanded immediate release of all transgender detainees. Her protest comes to represent the conflict between the respectability politics of gay marriage and the biopolitics of detention. At the same time, incidences of HIV keep rising among young and elderly, African-American […]
Read moreThis session combines two presentations on the deportation, detention, and activism of LGBTQ undocumented immigrants. “Liberation Not Deportation #not1more” Human Rights Watch released a 70-page report in March on the conditions of trans and gender-nonconforming immigrants currently being held in I.C.E. detention centers across the nation. For the first time, the abuse, sexual assault, and solitary confinement […]
Read moreIn this public conversation, “Who are the Stewards of the AIDS Archive,” Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr explore the dominance of white gay men as the main subjects and makers of AIDS-related culture that gets made and circulated about the ongoing epidemic. Examples include: Dallas Buyers Club, How to Survive A Plague, A Normal Heart. […]
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