NEGPEI divulga “Curso PPGICH-UFSC: Queer Anti-Fascism: Transnational Sexual Politics in Authoritarian Times”
Queer Anti-Fascism:
Transnational Sexual Politics in Authoritarian Times
Organisers:
- Billy Holzberg, Assistant Professor of Social Justice, King’s College London
- Howie Rechavia-Taylor, Fellow in International Politics, London School of Economics
Abstract:
From Brazil to Germany, India to the US, right-wing authoritarian and fascist movements are on the rise, organising transnationally and increasingly taking state power. These movements commonly position themselves as the protector of the nuclear family as the backbone of the nation, enshrine racist conceptions of the body politic and cement a naturalised gender binary. At the same time, fascist and other authoritarian movements also draw on homonationalist politics – stirring up fears of dangerous and/or conservative racialised ‘Others’ who threaten sexual freedom.
This 3-day workshop of 15 hours takes the perspective of ‘queer anti-fascism’ to think through and against these transnational mobilisations. It engages with the complex and often contradictory sexual politics of the nationalist right and crafts methodologies of queer resistance to them. While many anti-authoritarian queer movements and scholars have adapted the terminology of fascism and anti-fascism, others remain sceptical of this vocabulary and the historical weight it carries. What, then, is queer anti-fascist politics and how does it sit in relation to wider anti-colonial, feminist, and abolitionist politics? What futures and methodologies of resistance does an anti-fascist queer perspective allow us to imagine and enact? And is queer anti-fascism even a useful framework for understanding the historical present, or does it side-track us by recentring Eurocentric perspectives on the violence of modernity?
Readings:
Day 1: Histories of Sex and Fascism in Germany and Beyond
- Dagmar 2005. ‘Sex in the Third Reich’ in Sex after Fascism (p.10-64)
- Fatima El-Tayeb. 1999. ‘Blood Is a Very Special Juice’: Racialized Bodies and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century International Review of Social History, 44(S7), 149-169.
- Willhelm Reich. 1933. ‘The social function of sexual suppression’ in The Mass Psychology of Fascism (p.19-27). https://ia804703.us.archive.org/28/items/WilhelmReichTheMassPsychologyOfFascis m_20170308/Wilhelm%20Reich%20-%20The%20Mass%20Psychology%20of%20F pdf
Day 2: Transnational Anti-Gender and Authoritarian Sexual Politics Today
- Ojeda, Tomás, Holzberg, Billy and Aiko 2024. Confronting the Hydra: Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (p.5-23). London: Palgrave.
- Alyosha Goldstein and Simón Ventura 2022. ‘Fascism Now?’ in For Anti-Fascist Futures: Against the Violence of Anti-Imperial Crisis. Brooklyn: Common Notions Press.
- Gloria Careaga, Mário Pecheny and Sonia 2019. Sexuality in Latin America: Politics at a Crossroad. Sex Politics: https://sxpolitics.org/trendsandtensions/uploads/capitulos/4-latin-america.pdf
Day 3: Concept Work: From Homonationalism to Queer Anti-Fascism?
- Puar, 2022. Whither homonationalism? Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contextualised, pp.2-8.
- Rao, Rahul. 2015. Global Homocapitalism. Radical Philosophy. https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/global-homocapitalism
- Alqaisiya, , 2018. Decolonial queering: The politics of being queer in Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies, 47(3), pp.29-44.
