Articles

Asexuality, the Internet, and the Changing Lexicon of Sexuality

Jo Teut • Aug 22 2019 • Articles

By examining the language the asexual community has created as well as how we use this language we can understand different ways of constructing sexual categories.

Japanese ‘LGBT Boom’ Discourse and its Discontents

Ioana Fotache • Aug 20 2019 • Articles

The separation between political queer discourse and local behaviour has long existed and the adoption of universal terminology risks rendering subjectivities invisible.

Indigenous Sexualities: Resisting Conquest and Translation

Manuela L. Picq and Josi Tikuna • Aug 20 2019 • Articles

To Indigenise sexualities is a theoretical project in the sense of making visible how colonialism and sexuality interact within the perverse logic of modernity.

Understanding Sinn Féin’s Abstention from the UK Parliament

Conor Kelly • Aug 19 2019 • Articles

Asking Sinn Féin to take or forfeit their seats to stop Brexit does not go to the heart of why they are abstentionists in the first place.

Translating ‘Queer’ Into (Kyrgyzstani) Russian

Mohira Suyarkulova • Aug 18 2019 • Articles

The multiple uses of ‘queer’ across languages bear a ‘family resemblance’, but are not in a relationship of one-to-one correspondence of equivalence and identity.

Decolonising Queer Bangladesh: Neoliberalism Against LGBTQ+ Emancipation

Ibtisam Ahmed • Aug 16 2019 • Articles

While international solidarity is important and Western allies can provide much-needed security, it is vital for queer activism itself to be grounded in decolonisation.

Donors’ LGBT Support in Tajikistan: Promoting Diversity or Provoking Violence?

Karolina Kluczewska • Aug 12 2019 • Articles

LGBT rights projects funded by donors in Tajikistan have been more so an outcome of Western imagination than of an understanding of local realities.

The ASEAN Way Out? Toward Cooperative Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia

Brian Dorman and Tyler James Olsen • Aug 10 2019 • Articles

Notwithstanding its long-standing policy of non-interference, ASEAN is well-suited to respond and cooperate regionally on transboundary environmental issues.

Brexit Populism: To the Brink of Democracy and an Unholy Alliance with the US

Hartmut Behr • Aug 8 2019 • Articles

With the installation of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the UK, British democracy has – alongside political developments in the United States – reached a tipping point.

The Namelessness of Lives: What’s Not in a Name?

Cai Wilkinson • Aug 8 2019 • Articles

While our personal names shape perceptions, the labels used to describe our gendered selves and desires are radically different to different people across time and place.

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