Queer Anti-Fascism: A Queered Cultural Criminological Approach

• In Event: Navigating Queer Realities: Insights from Diverse Experiences

Abstract

This paper explores global queer anti-fascism through a queered cultural criminological lens, analyzing the intersections of queer identity, culture, and resistance against transnational oppression. Integrating cultural criminology with queer criminology, it investigates how global queer communities subvert and transgress dominant power structures via defiance, subversion, and creative expression, challenging normative notions of resistance. The paper examines case studies and cultural artifacts to understand queer culture's role in anti-fascist resistance, emphasizing art, performance, and symbolic defiance as sites of contestation and solidarity. It also explores the intersectionality of queer identities with race, gender, and class, affecting resistance strategies in global movements. Our approach aims to provide insights into the cultural dynamics of resistance, underscoring how queer identities and cultures are pivotal in the struggle for the fundamental right to exist.

Authors

• Brian Jay Frederick, SUNY Empire State University

• Paula Gil Larruscahim, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation