LGBTIQ movements and liberation
Outline:
LGBTIQ Movements and Liberation [/br] IIRE Ecosocialist School 27 November 2022 Peter Drucker
Introduction to the report and the reporter Capitalism and same-sex sexualities
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)