421 - Section on Sociology of Sexualities Paper Session. Social Movements and their Sexual Tensions

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Scholars and activists’ discussions of issues such as the legalization of marriage for same-sex couples raise important questions about how sexuality-based social movements are connected to other social movements. This session examines the relationships between sexuality-based identities and politics and social movements based in other identities and social locations. Questions taken up in this session may include (but are not limited to) the following: How do LGBT social movements build alliances with other social movements, like those centered on immigrant rights, workers’ rights, or resistance against racial inequality? What does it mean to be a queer social movement and how can a queer critique inform other social movements? How do sexual identities intersect with other identities, such as those based in race, ethnicity, gender, age, or legal status and what are the social and political implications of these intersectional identities for social movements?

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Sexualities / Social Movements and their Sexual Tensions

Session Organizer

• Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College-Columbia University

Presider

• Heather McKee Hurwitz, Barnard College

Individual Presentations

• Innovation at the Intersection: Locating Oppression and Resistance among African-American LGBT Organizers - Terrell D. Frazier, Columbia University

• It Gets Better for Queer Kids?: Age, Evading LGBTQ Inequality, and the Insistence of Declining Homophobia - Doug Meyer, The University of Virginia

• Pursuing Social Justice through Public Health: Gender and Sexual Diversity Activism in Malawi - Tara A. McKay, Vanderbilt University; Ashley Currier, University of Cincinnati

• Queering Mormonism and Mormonizing Sexuality: The Intersectionality and Hybridity of Contradictory Identities - Erik Stephen Lovell, Northwestern University

Discussant

• Heather McKee Hurwitz, Barnard College