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, by STROOP Chrissy
The transphobes who put a target on the back of Nex Benedict, who was beaten to death, are a threat to everyone
In the United States, as in the United Kingdom, there are some self-identified liberals and leftists who insist on pitting cisgender women’s rights against trans rights, baselessly (…)
, by Pink News
The UN has become the first international law body to declare that criminalising lesbian sex is a violation of human rights.
The case against Sri Lanka was brought by LGBT+ rights activist Rosanna Flamer-Caldera. (Facebook/ Rosanna Flamer-Caldera)
On Wednesday, 23 March, a UN committee, the (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain)
Back to basics
Our understanding of the term gender is that it is separate from the term sex, the latter refers to physiological features, the former to a socially constructed role. To quote Simone de Beauvoir: ‘one is not born but rather becomes a woman’. This has always been the general (…)
, by CRAIG Robin, GLEESON Jules Joanne, O’ROURKE Elle
Writer and historian Jules Joanne Gleeson and political economist and gender theorist Elle O’Rourke discuss their new co-edited book, which explores trans lives and movements through a Marxist lens.
Trans rights are at a crisis point. In the last year alone, we have seen threats to the (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
Author’s note: This article was years in the making. The time I spent wrestling with these issues now feels like a distant past. But still, in the midst of this pandemic, the importance of mutually desiring human touch - especially queer human touch - seems at least as great to me as ever. (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique By Mario Mieli, translated by David Fernbach and Evan Calder Williams London: Pluto Press, 2018, 260 pages plus index, $30 paperback from University of Chicago Press.
THE PAST DECADE’S mini-boomlet in queer Marxist publishing has sent (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
THE PAST DECADE’S mini-boomlet in queer Marxist publishing has sent some people in search of queer Marxist ancestors. This may be what prompted Pluto Press to put out a new edition of Mario Mieli’s book Towards a Gay Communism, first published in Italian in 1977 and in English (as Homosexuality (…)
, by WILSON Colin
A review of the new English republication of “Towards a Gay Communism” (1977) by the Italian gay liberation activist and writer Mario Mieli. Mario Mieli’s book, written in the late 70s, reveals a world lost to us now – the radicalisation of the late 60s and early 70s, which provided the context (…)
, by Kruthika N.S.
The effort towards representation and equality will take time and resources, but it comes down to what we prioritise as a society, and how we want that to reflect in our sport.
If sport can be termed a microcosm of society, it is hardly surprising that even today, a cisgender heterosexual man (…)
, by HAN Enze, O’MAHONEY Joseph
At the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, the British prime minister, Theresa May, urged Commonwealth nations to reform existing anti-gay legislation held over from British colonial rule. And while stopping short of a formal apology, she used her speech to explicitly (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
Queer Marxism has been founding a body of theory synthesizing Marxist concepts like class, reification and totality with concepts from other paradigms like performativity, homonationalism and intersectionality.
The roots of queer Marxism go back to the first interactions between socialist (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter, O’BRIEN Michelle
Peter Drucker. Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015. 446 pp. $36.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60846-636-8.
Reviewed by Michelle E. O’Brien (New York University, Department of Sociology) Published on H-Socialisms (August, 2017) Commissioned by Gary Roth (…)
, by KINSMAN Gary
Different Rainbows, edited by Peter Drucker. Gay Men’s Press: London, 2000. 222 pages, U.S. $19.95 (paperback).
THIS COLLECTION IS the first of its kind on the emergence of “queer” movements in all their diversities in the “third world.”
For far too long, writing and theorizing about the (…)
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