Jasbir Purar Lecture: 'Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times'

Wednesday, October 8 at 5:30 p.m.

Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Room 208

Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the legal recognition inherent in the overturning of anti-sodomy laws and the proliferation of more mainstream representation. Combining transnational feminism and queer theory, Jasbir Puar calls into question “homonationalisms”; nationalisms that rely on homonormative ideologies that replicate narrow racial, class, gender, and national ideals.

Sarah Lawrence College

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