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Capitalism and same-sex sexualities
Capitalism and same-sex sexualities [/br]
   Desires, practices, identities
   Desires, practices, identities
   Before capitalism: transgender; intersex; age- and status-defined gender & sexual roles
   Before capitalism: transgender; intersex; age- and status-defined gender & sexual roles

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

Gender wars

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

Racialized sexualities

  Racism & anti-racism in LGBTIQ communities (WC 14)
  Black (Queer) Lives Matter
  Europe & its immigrants

Queer geopolitics

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

Queering the movements, queering the left

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

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