For the past year and a half, what once constituted the regularities and routines of our everyday lives were disrupted. A global pandemic that still rages on, changes of the political regime, ongoing antiblackness and fights for racial justice, debates about immigration produced by and reinforcing xenophobia, the immediate and irreversible threat of climate change, […]
The theme for the 2022 Lesbian Lives Conference is Solidarity. As organisers of this two-day international and interdisciplinary conference, we now welcome proposals from academics, scholars, students, activists, documentary and filmmakers, writers and artists. The confirmed Keynote Presenters at the Lesbian Lives 2022 Conference are: Professor Susan Stryker, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Institute of LGBT Studies, University of […]
During this guest lecture Patricio Simonetto (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Institute of het Americas, University College London) will give a presentation titled: “Was Sex Inflexible? A Queer History of Gender Transgressions in Early Twentieth Century Argentina.”
This session of Research in Focus series is dedicated to the book Knowing Women, an ethnography on friendship, desire, and same-sex intimacy among urban, working-class women in southern Ghana. The intersectional analysis of their life narratives situates these women in relation to political, economic, and social developments affecting Ghana and other postcolonial and African countries, […]
Le colloque se propose d’étudier comment les intellectuel.les queer dans le contexte européen s’entraident pour diffuser leurs publications dans lesquelles ils défendent leur droit à aimer librement. La perspective que nous souhaitons adopter est plus étendue que celle des travaux précédents qui se penchent sur les liens entre ami.es ou amant.es queer et qui ont […]
While studies of social movements have overwhelmingly focused on contention and protest, I focus on the other end of the tactical spectrum, consensus. I conceptualize a repertoire of consensus and argue that through deploying a repertoire of consensus, movement actors might be able to establish relations with government actors characterized by cooperation and/or collaboration.
While organisational attention to the topics of workplace equality and inclusion has increased, some social groups are still disadvantaged. To support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer (LGBTIQ+) employees at work, many organisations have LGBTIQ+ employee resource groups (ERGs). These groups are uniquely placed to provide a safe space for LGBTIQ+ employees, facilitate alliances between these employees and their […]
Promoting the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity in education is increasingly under attack across Europe and beyond. Queer-feminist activists, the proponents of gender studies as well as queer-friendly youth and educational organisations face fierce opposition from right-wing extremists, religious fundamentalists and other groups with conservative agendas. Given these challenging circumstances, we want to create […]
The upcoming NOG Research Day will take place on Friday June 3, 2022, via Zoom. Organized by Maastricht University Centre for Gender and Diversity (the Netherlands), the program will include: a lecture by our keynote speaker SA Smythe (UCLA); a roundtable featuring recently launched research projects in the field of gender studies at Dutch Universities briefly presented […]
The GLBT Historical Society is delighted to be cohosting a groundbreaking conference in June gathering researchers, educators, community organizers and history enthusiasts from across the United States and beyond to showcase new directions in the histories of same-sex sexuality, transgender identities and gender nonconformity. The conference will take place on the campus of San Francisco […]