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Please join the Sociology Department for a presentation:
Risk, Desire and Adaptation: The Paradox of Queer Solidarity Under Neoliberalism and Homonationalism
by
Dr. Natalie Kouri-Towe
Between 2008 and 2015 the Toronto-based solidarity group, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA), organized in Toronto and was embroiled in controversy over annual attempts to have the group banned from the city's annual Pride parade. Interrogating how gestures of solidarity risk reinforcing the very systems that activists desire to resist, I argue that queer solidarities are caught in a paradox symptomatic of our times; whereby neoliberalism has commodified human rights discourses and instrumentalized sexualities to serve the interests of hegemonic power and obfuscate state violence. Examining the challenges of queer solidarity in a case study of QuAIA at Pride, I ask: how can we evaluate the tension between risk, desire, and adaptation in the political strategies of 21st century activism?
Friday, May 12, 2017
10:00 am
C610 - U-Hall
Contact:
Jenny Oseen | oseejs@uleth.ca | (403) 329-2551