Global Queer/Trans Movements

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This panel examines contemporary queer and trans movements across diverse global contexts, analyzing how activists mobilize for rights, recognition, and belonging amid an intensifying global wave of anti-LGBTQ backlash. As LGBTQ rights become increasingly contested in political and cultural discourse worldwide (particularly with the rise of illiberal and authoritarian regimes), this panel explores the discourses, strategies, and coalitions that queer and trans movements deploy to resist state homophobia and transphobia, repressive legislation, and anti-LGBTQ mobilization. How do queer and trans movements organize and build coalitions in times of backlash and scapegoating? How do intersections of gender, class, race, and empire become central or marginalized in movement formations? What roles do transnational networks (including global funding flows, transnational advocacy networks, and anti-rights mobilization) play in these processes? How do movement strategies and meanings vary across geographic contexts, and how are they connected to one another? This panel welcomes papers and extended abstracts that advance critical understanding of how queer and trans movements navigate increasingly hostile political climates across different parts of the world.

Sub Unit

• Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section / Global Queer/Trans Movements

Presider

• Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès

Individual Presentations

• Fidelity Over Fit: How Proximity to Movement Origins Constrains Adaptation in Europe’s Queer Ballroom Scene - Benjamin R. Weiss, Occidental College; Elise Kim, Occidental College

• Money After Marriage: Domestic Liberal Settlement and Reactive Transnationalization - Kristopher Velasco, Princeton University; Sebastián Rojas Cabal, Princeton University

• Queer Muslim Organizing as Decolonial Praxis - Toomi Al-Dhahi, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity

• Respatialising the Global Imaginary of Gay Rights: Resisting Africana Epistemicide and Forging Solidaristic Imaginaries - SM Rodriguez, LSE

Session Organizer

• Minwoo Jung, Loyola University Chicago