Futures of Feminist and Queer Solidarities

Description

What is the future of feminist and queer solidarities? Does it lie in digitalized transnational encounters or community-based small-scale local practices? Can solidarity, as a transformative kind of connectivity, open up a possibility of the ‘not yet’? What new inequalities and tensions occur through digitalization of solidarities in feminist, queer and environmental struggles? And how can de-growth be conceptualized as a form of solidarity in the context of feminist, indigenous and queer of colour critiques of dispossession, extraction and dislocation?
Starting from a set of troubling questions to the futures of feminist and queer solidarities, this conference seeks to explore, historicize and rethink the ways in which solidarity, connectivity, materiality and mobility have been shaped in various constellations of feminist and queer movements and scholarship. The organizers invite contributions that further theorize these dynamics in order to disrupt colonialisms and capitalisms, and their variant manifestations through ecocide, militarism, authoritarianisms, forms of precarization, violence and inequality. Of particular interest is the explorations of feminist and queer solidarities through the framework of transnationally entangled presents and histories to further theorize the various ways in which connectivities, materialities and mobilities occur. With this conference we seek to influence future agendas for such solidarities, liveabilities, memories, communities and spaces/places in a shared world.

Period	2020 Sept 30 → 2020 Oct 2
Event type	Conference
Location	Gothenburg, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International