Queer Interrogations: State Sovereignty, Precarity, and Reproductive Rights

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel showcases various kinds of queer scholarly interventions in the following areas: reproductive rights, class politics, border-crossing/migration, and state sovereignty. Some of the themes discussed here include critiques of heteronormative assumptions that underwrite dominant understandings of family-identity formations; the interrelationships between sex, sexuality, state territorial security, and citizenship rules; and the pitfalls and possibilities associated with centering the experiences of precarity and poverty in the project of gay liberation.

Sub Unit

• Division 47: Sexuality & Politics

Cosponsors

• Division 42: New Political Science

• Related Groups / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus

Individual Presentations

• Embodied Precarity: Queer Crossings and Sites of Resistance - Mary McThomas, University of California, Irvine

• Marriage Equality’s Wasteland: The Struggle for Queer Families After Obergefell - Erin Mayo-Adam, Hunter College, CUNY

• Sex Rules State Rules Sex Rule - Laura Sjoberg, Royal Holloway, University of London

• The Impossibility of Liberation: Queer Political Thought Since the New Left - Joanna W. Wuest, Princeton University

Chair

• Queer J. (Jerry) Thomas University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Discussant

• Queer J. (Jerry) Thomas University of Wisconsin Oshkosh