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LGBTIQ Movements and Liberation

IIRE Ecosocialist School

Introduction to the report and the reporter

Capitalism and same-sex sexualities<br>
   Desires, practices, identities<br>
   Before capitalism: transgender; intersex; age- and status-defined gender & sexual roles<br>
   Capitalist ‘free labour’ (John D’Emilio), production & social reproduction, gender & sexual oppression (FI WC resolution points 1-2)<br>
   Three stages of capitalism, three same-sex regimes<br>
        Imperialism, the invention of heterosexuality (Jonathan Ned Katz)/heteronormativity & inversion<br>
        Fordism, performative gender (Judith Butler/Kevin Floyd) & gays/lesbians<br>
        Neoliberal homonormativity v. queer<br>
        Wages & welfare states: rise, decline & sexual consequences (WC 5)<br>
        Marriage & adoption: a transitional approach (WC 17)<br>

Gender wars<br>
   The T & I in LGBTIQ (WC 18)<br>
   Lesbians (WC 24) & trans men: on strike against reproductive labour (Holly Lewis)<br>
   Transnormativity v. gender queers & non-binary people <br>
    Right-wing attacks on trans people & ‘gender ideology’<br>
    Complicating gender/sex: the social construction of sex (Judith Butler/Gabriel Girard)<br>
   ‘Gender-critical feminism’<br>

Racialized sexualities<br>
   Racism & anti-racism in LGBTIQ communities (WC 14)<br>
   Black (Queer) Lives Matter<br>
   Europe & its immigrants<br>

Queer geopolitics<br>
     Imperialism & same-sex sexualities (WC 4)<br>
     Colonial structures in the ‘international’ movement<br>
     Femonationalism (Sara Farris), homonationalism (Jasbir Puar), heteronationalism: the vicious circle<br>
      Islam & Africa; China/Taiwan & Russia/Ukraine<br>
     Palestinian queers v. pinkwashing<br>

Queering the movements, queering the left<br>
    Our methods of struggle (WC 25)<br>
    Young LGBTIQ people in struggle (WC 6)<br>
     Queer anti-capitalism & its limits so far<br>
    The example of healthcare organizing: from AIDS (TAC v. TRIPS; WC 16) to Covid-19<br> 
    Against the risk of split personality: self-organization (WC 34)<br>

Our vision of sexual liberation (WC 8-9,22)

Reading materials
- FI 15th World Congress (2003), ‘On Lesbian/Gay Liberation’,[https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article177], points: 1-2,4,5,6,8-9,13,14,16,17,18,22,24,25,34