This workshop (WS) aims to facilitate dialogue about the challenges of transnational organising and campaigning around gender and sexuality. The intensification of authoritarian movements, nationalist agendas and imperial ambitions calls for transnational solidarity. The WS will build upon participants’ experiences and visions of working together to enhance our understanding of potential emotional, cultural, and political problems that may surface in transnational projects. The WS assumes that effective transnational collaboration demands self-reflexivity and awareness of –depending on context – linguistic, cultural or racial differences and the significance of different historical experiences. Drawing on an intersectional feminist ethics of shifting and rooting (N. Yuval-Davis) the WS will use a sequence of activities to reflect on differences and power – and scope for coming together - within a (post)colonial world order and an economically stratified Europe, riddled by tensions.
Christian Klesse is Professor of the Sociology of Contemporary Intimacies at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. His research interests lie in the fields of gender and sexual politics, consensual non-monogamy and polyamory, transnational LGBTQIA+ activism, bisexuality, and queer diaspora studies. He has done collaborative research in many European countries, focusing on practices of solidarity across borders and boundaries.
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