Post-Soviet Intimacies: An Introduction

Swader, Christopher S.; Obelenė, Vaida

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“…The very fact of silencing queerness speaks to attempts to regulate sex rather than leave it as is. Sexuality indeed appears to be central for Russian politics (Swader and Obelene 2015). But while silencing may be understood as very poor ground for the production of strong identities, it does not mean that it did not yield disciplinary power productive of differently organised forms of knowledge about queerness.…”

Section: Violent Affections 88mentioning

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“…This impressive lava flow of sex could not but provoke a demand for order to return. While in the early 2000s, when Putin's government was beginning to really build state control, sexuality was of very little concern to the Kremlin, it soon took centre stage precisely because power is so intimately connected to gender and sexuality (Borozdina et al 2016;Kondakov 2020a;Suchland 2018;Swader and Obelene 2015). Politicians once again returned to the idea of a ban on muzhelozhstvo and proposed the re-inclusion of criminal articles against voluntary same-sex intercourse as well as a ban on 'homosexual propaganda' (Healey 2008).…”

Section: The Reconfiguration Of Powermentioning

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Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

Kondakov¹

2022

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List of figures and tables viii Acknowledgements ix Series editor's preface xii Introduction: neo-disciplinary power 1 Part I: The authority of law 23 1 The legal field 27 2 From a place of indifference 48 Part II: Unruly sexuality 74 3 Russia in queer colours 77 4 The sexual subject of law 101 Part III: Affects, emotions and law 125 8 Conclusion: the global Memeticon 198 References 211 Index 227VIOLENT AFFECTIONS viii List of figures and tables new guests brought along two more bottles of vodka. In the courtroom, these two men claimed that during the time that elapsed after their arrival, there was a marked increase in tension between Tatyana and Oleg. Tatyana allegedly called him a person with 'non-traditional sexual orientation', requested money from him, and repeatedly bothered him. At one point, Tatyana took Oleg to her bed and 'sat on his face with her genitals, also trying to push her panties into his mouth'. He resisted, which she saw as proof of his homosexuality. One of the guests stood up for Oleg and was locked in a closet, only to be taken to a cemetery later where he was forced to dig his own grave, in which he was buried alive.As the night progressed, Oleg was forced to put on the yellow dress and tights in which the police later discovered his body. The three defendants would soon be found guilty of beating him with their fists, feet and empty vodka bottles. According to the case file, blood was all over the place and Oleg could hardly walk when the drunken group took him to their car and drove in the direction of the Oka River dam. When they arrived, they opened the boot of the car and took Oleg out. He started to walk but fell into a nearby ditch, where he would lie for another week, unfound and eaten by maggots. The defendants left and headed to the victim's flat to pick up some of his belongings, including a TV, a microwave oven and a loudspeaker system. They returned to the original flat, where one of the defendants engaged in sex with Tatyana, and the rest of the guests had sex with another woman.The events of that night were interpreted by the district criminal court as manslaughter (the man who had been buried alive luckily survived the assault and was simply ignored by the court). The judge held that the defendants did not have the intention to kill (this would have constituted murder), but simply caused injuries eventually incompatible with life (manslaughter). In establishing whether the victim was a gay man, the court reviewed a forensic examination of his anus, in which 'spermatozoa were not found'. The three attackers were sentenced to 8 and 9 years in a high-security facility -two of the men were already convicted criminals and therefore received one additional year on their sentences. The rest of the group were summoned only as witnesses, including Tatyana.

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Section: Violent Affections 88mentioning

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Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

Kondakov¹

2022

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Mы нe oшибкa (We Are Not an Error): Documentary Film and LGBT Activism Against the Russian Anti-“Gay Propaganda” Campaign

Glenn

2019

LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe

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“It’s No Longer Taboo, is It?” Stories of Intimate Citizenship of People with Disabilities in Today’s Russian Public Sphere

Iarskaia‐Smirnova

Verbilovich

2020

Sexuality & Culture

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This article examines how disability and sexuality are represented in today's Russian media, and how disabled people navigate these understandings. Drawing on online storytelling and first person stories about sexuality told by disabled people in the public sphere, the article provides a qualitative account of people with disabilities, journalists and civil rights advocates, analyzing how contemporary Russians with disabilities narrate their own lives in public forums. The focus of their stories, as well as the accounts of eyewitnesses, volunteers in the institutions, is on the constraints and limits of sexuality and intimacy spheres imposed by the professionals, families and wider society. This article also interprets the narratives behind disabled people's sexuality circulating in contemporary Russia through digital networks, in combination with qualitative data from primary sources: disability activists and two journalists with and without disability in Moscow. It is argued that the telling of these stories in a public forum is a political act. In personal stories about sexual, bodily experiences told in the interviews or autobiographical texts, self-presentations and discussions in social networks, the voices of people are heard, permitting emancipation from previous categories. However, disability always remains with them, playing an important role in social lives of these people and in their sexual experiences and identities, becoming the cornerstone of the personal and collective redefining of themselves. Using ideas of "visibility politics" (Arendt), queer/crip kinship and intimate citizenship (Plummer), the authors demonstrate how someone might choose to speak publicly about a topic and how this understanding develops cultural understandings of contemporary Russia.

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Post-Soviet Intimacies: An Introduction

Cited by 4 publications

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Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

Mы нe oшибкa (We Are Not an Error): Documentary Film and LGBT Activism Against the Russian Anti-“Gay Propaganda” Campaign

“It’s No Longer Taboo, is It?” Stories of Intimate Citizenship of People with Disabilities in Today’s Russian Public Sphere

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