Έμφυλες και σεξουαλικές διαστάσεις του "ρατσισμού": εννοιολογήσεις συνυφασμένων καταπιέσεων στους ΛΟΑΤΚ κινηματικούς λόγους
Through conversations with activists, Ι explore conceptualisations of interwoven oppressions and resistances in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) political spaces in Athens and Thessaloniki. My point of departure is the use and signification of “racism” in LGBTQ discourses as a superor...
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| Περίληψη: | Through conversations with activists, Ι explore conceptualisations of interwoven oppressions and resistances in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) political spaces in Athens and Thessaloniki. My point of departure is the use and signification of “racism” in LGBTQ discourses as a superordinate concept, as well as that of its subcategories, specifically “homophobia” and “transphobia.” Ηow is this use of “racism” related to the concept of “intersectionality,” now emergent in the Greek context? How do activists define the referential scope and semantic contents of these concepts, based on what knowledges grounded in lived experiences, and on what kinds of social movement strategies? How do these concepts and their theoretical underpinnings reflect or direct activists’ political resistance to the widespread violence that they identify within and on the borders of Greek society? What potential alliances are enabled or prevented by differential consciousnesses, conceptualizations and descriptions of multiple, simultaneous and interwoven oppressions? In approaching these questions, I trace the ways in which my interlocutors produce theories, through which social conditions of racist, heteronormative, and gendered power are made visible, are explained and are contested—conditions that they identify with the institutions —“nation, religion, and family”— that make up the “triptych” or the “syntax of power.” |
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