Yasmin Nair’s talk at the Decolonizing Sexualities Roundtable II on the 29th November 2013: Against Equality: An Economic Critique of the Queer Imagination:https://vimeo.com/80471648
Silvia Posocco talks to Sandeep Bakshi on Decolonizing Sexualities – listen here
Members of Paris-based activist group Lesbians of Colour (LOCs) discuss their work. Read their Communiques here.
Interview with Tamsila on the Inclusive Mosque Initiative – listen here
Paola Bacchetta, Fatima El Tayeb & João Gabriell in conversation about the terminologies ‘queer’ and ‘queer of colour’ in Europe – listen here
Dr Karma Chavez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and in Chican@ and Latin@ Studies, University of Wisconsin
Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities
17th June 2013
Abstract:
Chávez’s forthcoming book, Queer Migration Politics, suggests that neither the inclusionary politics of the mainstream US LGBT rights movement nor the utopian turn in some queer theory sufficiently capture the possibilities for queer politics in this moment. Drawing on the rhetoric of activists working at the various intersections and convergences of queer and immigration rights and justice, Chávez advocates that coalition is a productive alternative to both inclusionary and utopian approaches, even as coalitional approaches sometimes draw upon them both. In this talk, Chávez will sketch the main arguments in the book and discuss some of the key case studies from activist rhetoric in the contemporary United States.
Dr. Karma Chávez is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts and affiliate faculty in Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. She is co-editor of Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices (SUNY Press, 2012), editor of a special issue of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication on “Queer Intercultural Communication” (2013, vol 6. iss. 2), and author of several articles on feminism, queer theory and politics, migration, and social movements. Her book manuscript titled, Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities will be out with University of Illinois Press in the fall of 2013.
PODCAST: Karma Chavez-S