30880 - Decolonial Feminisms and Queer Solidarities

Description

The ongoing violence and genocide in Palestine necessitate urgent feminist and queer interventions. This panel explores how to build transnational feminist and queer solidarity with Palestine and other occupied lands and asks what feminist and queer liberation could look like through this lens. Panelists will address the “Palestine exception” in Western feminist and LGBTQ discourses, discussing intersections with settler colonialism, imperialism, militarism, and racial capitalism, as well as their links to sexual violence, reproductive injustice, and pinkwashing. This session aims to foster dialogue among sociologists, encouraging a reorientation of critical sociological scholarship toward transnational and decolonial frameworks.

Sub Unit

• Section on Global and Transnational Sociology / Decolonial Feminisms and Queer Solidarities

Presider

• Jyoti Puri, Boston University

Panelists

• Eman Abdelhadi, University of Chicago

• Zahra Ali, Rutgers University-Newark

• Nadine Naber, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Alithia Zamantakis, Northwestern University

Session Organizers

• Minwoo Jung, Loyola University-Chicago

• Jyoti Puri, Boston University