20464 - Queer of Color Critique and Sociology

Description

Queer of color critique offers a plethora of interdisciplinary scholarship, providing sociologists with critical insights relevant to areas of sociological inquiry. These areas include, but are not limited to, debates surrounding gendered racism, empire, racial capitalism, and normativity. This session aims to bring together participants who engage with queer of color critique, broadly construed, to make theoretical or methodological interventions in sociology. In other words, what does queer of color critique offer us that other theoretical perspectives do not? We invite participants from across sociological subfields who employ qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methodological approaches in their research, with keen attention to intersectionality. We especially welcome submissions from scholars working on the Global South or who foreground minoritized communities’ experiences, such as Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC), working-class, and LGBTQ+ communities.

Sub Unit

• Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Queer of Color Critique and Sociology

Presider

• Miguel Arturo Avalos, Kenyon College

Individual Presentations

• Ageing While Trans* in India: Ethnographic Notes from West Bengal, India - Diya Bose, William & Mary

• Practicing a “Love Ethic” and Academic Dissimulation as Queer Resistance: Reflections on Subverting Institutional Review Boards - Jacob Wesley Richardson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Embodying Multidimensionality: The Reclamation of Black Trans Life Amid Socio-Political Violence - Kimya Loder, Georgia Institute of Technology

• The Primacy Paradox and the Racialization of Agentic Self-Expression - Danya Lagos, University of California-Berkeley

Session Organizer

• Miguel Arturo Avalos, Kenyon College