Southern Europe is a recent and growing area of interest in social sciences. The region presents different degrees of recognition of same-sex relationships, before, after and beyond marriage. In this panel we present results from timely research conducted in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The three countries share similar gender and welfare regimes, marked by Catholicism, […]
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Southern Europe is a recent and growing area of interest in social sciences. The region presents different degrees of recognition of same-sex relationships, before, after and beyond marriage. In this panel we present results from timely research conducted in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The three countries share similar gender and welfare regimes, marked by Catholicism, […]
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While marriage has been opened up to same-sex couples in a growing number of countries, the practices of queer kinship that are ‘more than marriage,’ especially those from non-Western cultures, deserve much more attention. In this panel consisting of academics and activists from China and Taiwan, we present an array of queer family experiences: marriages […]
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Rural queer studies scholars have critiqued the metronormativity of LGBTQ Studies and activism, urging us to re-think the cultural narratives that pair closeted and homophobic with the rural and liberated and tolerant with the city. This panel builds upon this body of work to ask: What might rural queer studies offer as we (re)conceptualize LGBTQ […]
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This roundtable is focused on the importance of queer friendships, grounded in the shared experience of living in Las Vegas, through auto-biographical remembering. Today, LGBTQ activists are growing up with marriage equality, whereas we were advocating for Domestic Partnerships in the Nevada State Legislature and were so proud when it happened in 2009. Marriage was […]
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Abbey S. Willis: “Benign Sexual Variation: Intimacies, Family, and Queering Sexual Citizenship” (full abstract) Timothy M. Griffiths: “Cruising Ethiopia: Worldmaking, Antinormativity, and Other Aesthetic Strategies in the Work of Pauline E. Hopkins” (full abstract) Lavelle Porter: “Black Queer Future: Reading Samuel Delany’s Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders” (full abstract)
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