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Serrano-Amaya, José Fernando

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“…These limits of using identity-based categories as an analytical lens have been a focus of queer critiques of crisis. In analyzing anti-LGBT violence, José Fernando Serrano-Amaya (2017, 157) notes that “what is usually seen as anti-homosexual violence is an assemblage of several, sometimes disparate, forms of violence.” Serrano-Amaya's point is not to “deny the role of violence in the creation, maintenance and transformation of unjust gender and sexual orders” but instead to challenge the “silo-isation” of sexual politics research, which ignores other identities and dynamics in its sole focus on sexuality (159; see also Bennett 2010). Thus, Serrano-Amaya rightly argues that a queer methodological approach goes beyond a totalizing focus on sexual identity and deconstructs the different factors that contribute to the marginality of diverse LGBT populations.…”

Section: Assessing Lgbt Vulnerability During Crisismentioning

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A Queer Approach to Understanding LGBT Vulnerability during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Ritholtz

2020

Pol & Gen

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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, advocates have argued for the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people in humanitarian response efforts. Yet the application of this differential focus has been mixed among international policy guidelines and national programs. This research note details a queer theoretical approach to humanitarian crises that considers the intersectional factors that produce specific vulnerabilities within LGBT communities. We take two examples from distinct LGBT communities during the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrate the analytical risk of treating the umbrella acronym LGBT, indicating distinct identity groups, as monolithic and not differentiating within identity groups based on other factors. We contend that this monolithic approach risks obviating the way different structural forces further compound precarity during crisis. Thus, we make the case for rooting intersectional approaches in any queer analyses of crisis.

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A Queer Approach to Understanding LGBT Vulnerability during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Ritholtz

2020

Pol & Gen

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“…In Africa, there is a history of discrimination laws towards PwD, such as the 1957 reformation of the Immorality Act of 1927 under South African apartheid laws to criminalise sexual relations with persons with mental disabilities (Serrano-Amaya, 2017). Sait et al (2011) maintain that the African literature seems to suggest an ‘African taboo’ when issues of sexuality and disability are discussed simultaneously.…”

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De/coloniality, disabled sexualities, and anti-oppressive education: a review of Southern African literature

Ubisi

2020

South African Journal of Psychology

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This review seeks to establish the current body of knowledge on the intersection of de/coloniality and the sexuality of disabled individuals. It suggests that few studies problematise the lack of such intersections in Southern Africa. The review locates this dearth of knowledge within the recent rollout of comprehensive sexuality education in schools, which remains silent to intersections of de/coloniality, disability, and sexuality. This analysis builds on the recommendation of Kumashiro to consider marginalised and post-structural theories in developing anti-oppressive education for disabled groups in terms of their sexualities. This becomes relevant as the sexuality of disabled individuals has been subject to institutional oppression based on colonial ideologies of health, beauty, and sexuality, since socio-medical discourses portray disabled individuals as infertile, non-sexual, and degendered. Given the shortage of relevant studies, the review uses the available local and international literature to locate the complex, interconnected structures and actors that perpetuate repressive colonial systems such as ableism, compulsory able-bodiedness, and heteronormativity within sexuality education. It suggests alternative ways of looking at these intersections within the diverse scope of comprehensive sexuality education. It does not claim that decoloniality is the panacea to erase the consequences of coloniality towards disabled sexualities, but suggests that it is one of the modalities that can redress the complex, interconnected systems of post-colonial oppression. The review recommends that future authors consider other marginalised and post-structural theories in conceptualising anti-oppressive education, like Foucauldian theories.

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“…Finally, the recognition of sexual diversity in military institutions in several States (Atuk, 2021; Belkin and Levitt, 2001; Brown and Ayres, 2004; Gutmann and Lutz, 2010). The incursion of the LGBT perspective in the processing of transitional processes has also been recorded (Hagen, 2017; Serrano, 2018; Thylin, 2019). However, its incorporation into disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs is low (Thylin, 2018).…”

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“…In Colombia, on the other hand, there are three postulates in the research background (Bouvier, 2016; Caribe Afirmativo, 2019, 2020, 2021; CNMH, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019; Giraldo, 2020; Giraldo and Gallego, 2020; Prada et al, 2012; Serrano, 2018; Thylin, 2018, 2019). The first of these suggests that the armed groups not only seek to impose a political order in the territories, but also a moral order in which gender and sexuality regimes are implicitly integrated.…”

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Stories of homoeroticism amongst male ex-combatants of illegal armed groups: Unexplored areas of the armed conflict in Colombia

Aguirre

Montes

2022

Sexualities

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The aim of this paper is to present the male homoerotic experiences of ex-combatants from the FARC-EP and ELN guerrillas, as well as paramilitary groups, during their period in these armed groups. For this article, we have used multiple methodological strategies. For the first two stories, we made semi-structured qualitative interviews with ex-combatants. Then, we wrote the narratives collaboratively. For the third story, the anecdote was constructed based on the testimonies of the residents of a municipality of Caldas affected by the armed conflict. The participation of combatants in homoerotic practices and their involvement in romantic relationships with men showed that interpretations and meanings of homosexuality (and heterosexuality) in war contexts can be questioned, since their involvement is related to victimization. In addition, the narratives demonstrated that the meaning of these concepts was fragmented in various directions such as desire, feelings, anxieties, and complicity with the armed logic.

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A Queer Approach to Understanding LGBT Vulnerability during the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Queer Approach to Understanding LGBT Vulnerability during the COVID-19 Pandemic

De/coloniality, disabled sexualities, and anti-oppressive education: a review of Southern African literature

Stories of homoeroticism amongst male ex-combatants of illegal armed groups: Unexplored areas of the armed conflict in Colombia

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