Liabilities of Queer Anti-Racist Critique

Queering intersectionality: encountering the transnational

“…Kosnick 2011;Thing 2010;Cantú 2009;Mai/King 2009;Kuntsman 2009;Manalansan 2006) and queer diaspora critique (cf. Gopinath 2005;Eng/ Halberstam/ Muñoz 2005;Manalansan 2003;Eng 2001), mainstream transnational migration research remains curiously untouched by these insights from the margins. As Cantú has argued, "migration research is framed by heteronormative assumptions that not only deny the existence of nonheterosexual subjects but also cloak the ways in which sexuality itself influences migratory processes" (Cantú 2009: 21).…”

Welcoming the World? Hospitality, Homonationalism, and the London 2012 Olympics

“…This type of reading relies on an interpretation of athletes, visitors and (even) Londoners of African or Islamic Asian origin as “sexually oppressed [ people ] from less enlightened, pre‐modern regimes” (Davidson :17). Here, the liberal Western gay nation is contrasted with the oppressed in a way that perpetuates established distinctions of sex, race, religion and gender, denying the possibility of what Douglas et al () term a “genuinely queer anti‐racist critique” that considers the inseparability of these identity categories.…”

“…Such observations on the “pitting of sexual diversity as a sign of modern civility against the ‘backwardness’ of certain forms of racialisation” (Douglas et al : 111) are particularly revealing if we turn to consider the sexual landscapes of the East End boroughs where the Olympics unfolded. Here, in February 2011, stickers began to appear in some parts of Tower Hamlets proclaiming the area an “anti‐gay zone” in the name of Allah .…”

Queer Trouble: Centring Race in Queer and Feminist Politics

“…The censorship was scandalised, with a special issue of Feminist Legal Studies being devoted to queer anti-racist critique (Douglas et al 2011), but the book remains out of print.…”