Asexuality, the Internet, and the Changing Lexicon of Sexuality
By examining the language the asexual community has created as well as how we use this language we can understand different ways of constructing sexual categories.
Japanese ‘LGBT Boom’ Discourse and its Discontents
The separation between political queer discourse and local behaviour has long existed and the adoption of universal terminology risks rendering subjectivities invisible.
Indigenous Sexualities: Resisting Conquest and Translation
To Indigenise sexualities is a theoretical project in the sense of making visible how colonialism and sexuality interact within the perverse logic of modernity.
Translating ‘Queer’ Into (Kyrgyzstani) Russian
The multiple uses of ‘queer’ across languages bear a ‘family resemblance’, but are not in a relationship of one-to-one correspondence of equivalence and identity.
Decolonising Queer Bangladesh: Neoliberalism Against LGBTQ+ Emancipation
While international solidarity is important and Western allies can provide much-needed security, it is vital for queer activism itself to be grounded in decolonisation.
Donors’ LGBT Support in Tajikistan: Promoting Diversity or Provoking Violence?
LGBT rights projects funded by donors in Tajikistan have been more so an outcome of Western imagination than of an understanding of local realities.
Interview – Diako Yazdani
Kurdish Iranian filmmaker Diako Yazdani discusses his documentary film Kojin (2019) which tackles problems of homophobia in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Queer Theory and Sexual Equality
Queer Theory allows analysis not just of Gender categories, but also how these function within the politico-economic context.
The Commodified Queer Sublime
If the home, the nation, the marketing brand of LGBTQIA are the only potential spaces of belonging, then where is home beyond these spaces?
Sex, Tongue, and International Relations
We must tackle the problem of sexual liberation to show how global narratives assert the existence of diverse sexualities but also impose external arrangements.
