Postcolonial Queer Feminist Perspectives on Transnational Solidarity

In this session with Srila Roy (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) and Serena Owusua Dankwa (University of Basel), we will explore the question of transnational queer and feminist solidarities from a postcolonial angle. Departing from specific contexts in India and Ghana, we will discuss the connections between queer and feminist struggles in the Global South and consider their relationships to diasporic and Western contexts. Our guests will also reflect on the conceptual, epistemic, and methodological approaches they use to make sense of gendered power relations and practices of resistance.

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Srila Roy is a Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand with long-standing interest and expertise is in the field of transnational gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement (Oxford 2012), one of the first books on the gender and sexual politics of Indian Maoism, and Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Duke 2022; Distinguished Book Award in the Sexualities category from the American Sociology Association), which maps a rapidly changing terrain of queer and feminist organizing under conditions of neoliberalism and globalization. She is the editor of, among others, New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities (Zed Books 2012). Her research advances debates on postcolonial gender and sexualities, development, neoliberalism and social movements, and centres the Global South in feminist enquiry.
This event is curated by Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin), Céline Barry (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung der Technischen Universität Berlin) and Pablo Valdivia Orozco (EUV Frankfurt/Oder). it is part of Postcolonial Critiques, Decolonial Perspectives: a hybrid lecture series.

Serena Owusua Dankwa is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology. She has worked at the crossroads of academic, activist, and artistic forms of knowledge production, with a particular focus on queer, feminist, and African concepts of gender, friendship and intimacy. Her monograph Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana (Cambridge 2021) is the first full-length ethnography on African women’s same-sex intimacies outside South Africa and received the Ruth Benedict Prize and the Elliot P.Skinner Prize of the American Anthropological Association. She co-edited open access volume Bildung.Macht.Diversität (transcript 2021) as well as the collection Racial Profiling (transcript 2019). Her new research project focuses on safe house intimacies in relation to protection, security, mobility and repression and in the larger context of feminist development and solidarity projects.

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Time: 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm CET/GMT+1

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