9th North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference
Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, Canada)
June 1, 2, 3 | 1-2-3 juin | junio 1, 2, 3
@CEDA, 2525 Rue Delisle, Lionel-Groulx Metro
Free
1). Sex policing panel: Friday June 1st,13:30-15:20
Moderator: Nicholas Lénart
PANEL (Le Chat Noir Room)
Nicholas Lénart , Gary Kinsman, Queers Crash the Beat and Stella,
Policing Desire: Resisting Police Interference in the Lives of Queers
and Sex Workers
2). Apology critique presentation: Saturday June 2nd, 17:30-18:20
PRRESENTATION (The Monkey Wrench)
Gary Kinsman, The making of the neoliberal queer and reconciliation with
Canadian national security: The apology from above versus the apology
from below
This talk draws on my work on the making of the neoliberal queer which provides a social basis for some queers (mostly cis white middle class gay men, but not only) to reconcile with neoliberal racialized capitalist relations and Canadian settler colonial state formation. This new class/race strata provides a basis for some queers who were constructed as ‘risks’ to the nation during the Canadian war on queers to become part of the ‘nation’ and to be deployed against the ‘national security risks’ of Indigenous land and water defenders, anti-tar sands and anti-pipeline activists, Muslim and Arab identified people, and others. In particular this talk will focus on the long history of queer resistance to the Canadian war on queers which produced the basis for an apology from below which has been transformed by a number of social and state forces into an apology from above identified with the ‘nation’ and national security. The potential for continuing resistance to homonationalism and the neoliberal queer will be at the centre of the talk.
Gary Kinsman is a queer liberation, AIDS, anti-poverty and anti-capitalist activist living on Indigenous land. He is currently involved in the AIDS Activist History Project, organizing against the limitations of Bill C-66 (the sexual expungement legislation) and was involved in the We Demand an Apology Network. He is the author of The Regulation of Desire, co-author of The Canadian War on Queers and co-editor of We Still Demand! and Sociology for Changing the World. He is Professor Emeritus
in Sociology, Laurentian University and his website is radical noise.