An ACES Lecture by Andrew Reynolds: Explaining divergence in the embrace of LGBTQ rights among right wing parties in the OSCE No mainstream political party robustly advocated for gay rights for the first century of modern democracy’s evolution. Then, gathering momentum in the 1970s, a cluster of left wing and liberal Western European parties begin […]
The year 2021 marks a milestone for the representation of LGBT+ people in Dutch politics, as the first trans woman was elected into parliament. This evening, academics, politicians and activists from the U.S. and the Netherlands draw lessons from a trans-Atlantic comparison of LGBT+ rights and representation, discuss the challenges of cracking the LGBT+ glass […]
The Leiden Overview on SOGIESC in International Law (put together by Kees Waaldijk & Waruguru Gaitho) is a list of online introductory video/audio/reading materials for anyone interested in the international legal aspects of SOGIESC (= Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity/Expression, Sex Characteristics) – and in particular for anyone (considering) taking part in Leiden University’s Summer School on Sexual Orientation and Gender […]
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 […]