In recent years, political efforts to achieve international human rights protections based on “sexual orientation and gender identity” — or SOGI, the common abbreviation used within the UN system — have come to be inscribed within the familiar geopolitical binary pitting the so-called West and non-West. This development speaks in part to the growing clout … Read more
Introduction: Relajo’s Activist Refusal In a grainy online video , activist and performance artist, Jesusa Rodríguez is flipping through photographs of her old work in a book-lined office, saying, “ah, yes, this is La Malinche I was telling you about, from the Conquest.” Diana Taylor (off-screen) takes the photo and replies, “How great. We’ll get … Read more
Karma proposed this idea to special issue editors, Gema and Brenna, for selfish reasons: She wanted an opportunity to create and facilitate a conversation between some of the queer activists from around the world that she admires most. The questions she wanted to ask them centered on how they understand what they do as queer … Read more
Queer Migration Politics as Transnational Activism Organizations like the US-based Human Rights Campaign have set their sights on international pursuits after the achievement of marriage equality in the United States, and President Obama, in a landmark visit to Kenya and Ethiopia in summer 2015, chastised East African countries for their records on LGBTI rights. As … Read more
Introduction Since the mid-2000s, Spain has presented itself as being at the forefront of sexual and gender legal rights, especially after the approval of a same-sex marriage law of 2005 and the creation of the new Ministry of Equality in 2008. Such landmark legal and political gains are frequently used globally as a measure of … Read more
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A note about this piece Introduction LGBT activists around the globe have often framed demands for equal treatment, access to goods and services, and broader social transformation as matters of “LGBT human rights.” Increasingly, such framings have gained legitimacy and meaningful traction among many—although certainly not all—governmental and intergovernmental bodies. On December 10, 2010, UN … Read more
In our historical moment, activism for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights, on the one hand, and political homophobia and the targeting of gender non-conforming people, on the other, are both in wide global production and circulation. Advocacy for gay rights in the Global South has increasingly become a new field of action for the Global … Read more
Lindsey Green-Simms: Can you tell us a little bit about your oeuvre. What do you like to write about and why? What are you working on now? Unoma Azuah: I work on every genre of literature from fiction to poetry, non-fiction and drama. I do work more on some than the others. My dominant focus, … Read more
This interview has been edited for clarity and length B. Munro: Thank you so much for giving us this interview, Sokari. Maybe we could start with giving us a sense of the transnational paths that your life and work has taken you on. S. Ekine: I’m Nigerian and British. A mix. I was born in … Read more
