LGBTIQ movements and liberation

Outline:

LGBTIQ Movements and Liberation

IIRE Ecosocialist School

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)

Reading materials

- FI 15th World Congress (2003), ‘On Lesbian/Gay Liberation’,[1], points: 1-2,4,5,6,8-9,13,14,16,17,18,22,24,25,34

- New introduction to Warped. [2]