Book Launch: Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights, (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope

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* Thursday, Sept. 13th Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church Street, Toronto,  6:30pm.

Speakers: Nancy Nicol, Jane Wothaya Thirikwa, Maurice Tomlinson and Amar Wahab.

Wheelchair accessible. Sponsored by the Centre for Feminist Research, York University. For more information contact: Nancy Nicol, nnicol@yorku.ca

https://www.facebook.com/events/2095244394129208/

Book edited by: Nancy Nicol, Adrian Jjuuko, Richard Lusimbo, Nick J. Mulé, Susan Ursel, Amar Wahab and Phyllis Waugh

This anthology is an outcome of five years collaboration and research by Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights, an international research and participatory documentary project based in Africa, the Caribbean, India and Canada. It is a book for activists as well as academics and researchers and all those interested in advancing social justice and rights for LGBTIQ people.

“Above all, the book presents reports from some of the most fiercely fought battlegrounds of contemporary sexual politics, spearheaded by leading activists…Similarly, the contents will provide specific source material for academics across many interdisciplinary fields and disciplines in terms of gender and sexuality studies; postcolonial, sociological, sociolegal, cultural and film studies; and the fields of politics and social policy”.
– foreword, by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites,

Including  Policing borders and sexual/gender identities: queer refugees in the years of Canadian neoliberalism and homonationalism by Gary Kinsman.

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Table of Contents

  • Foreword

Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites

  • Overview

Nancy Nicol

  • 1. Vacillating between empathy and contempt: the Indian judiciary and LGBT rights

Arvind Narrain

  • 2. Expanded criminalisation of consensual same-sex relations in Africa: contextualising recent developments

Adrian Jjuuko and Monica Tabengwa

  • 3. Policing borders and sexual/gender identities: queer refugees in the years of Canadian neoliberalism and homonationalism

Gary Kinsman

  • 4. Queer affirmations: negotiating the possibilities and limits of sexual citizenship in Saint Lucia

Amar Wahab

  • 5. Violence and LGBT human rights in Guyana

Pere DeRoy with Namela Baynes Henry

  • 6. Cultural discourse in Africa and the promise of human rights based on non-normative sexuality and/or gender expression: exploring the intersections, challenges and opportunities

Monica Mbaru, Monica Tabengwa and Kim Vance

  • 7. Haven or precarity? The mental health of LGBT asylum seekers and refugees in Canada

Nick J. Mulé and Kathleen Gamble

  • 8. The rise of SOGI: human rights for LGBT people at the United Nations

Kim Vance, Nick J. Mulé, Maryam Khan and Cameron McKenzie

  • 9. Resistance to criminalisation, and social movement organising to advance LGBT rights in Belize

Caleb Orozco

  • 10. The multifaceted struggle against the Anti- Homosexuality Act in Uganda10.

Adrian Jjuuko and Fridah Mutesi

  • 11. Emergent momentum for equality: LGBT visibility and organising in Kenya

Jane Wothaya Thirikwa

  • 12. Kuchu resilience and resistance in Uganda: a history

Richard Lusimbo and Austin Bryan

  • 13. Gender theatre: the politics of exclusion and belonging in Kenya

Guillit Amakobe, Kat Dearham and Po Likimani

  • 14. Telling Our Stories: Envisioning participatory documentary

Nancy Nicol

  • Appendix: Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights participatory documentaries