Full Description
In Eastern Europe and Eurasia, LGBT+ individuals face repression by state forces and non-state actors who attempt to reinforce their vision of traditional social values. Decolonizing Queer Experience moves beyond discourses of oppression and repression to explore the resistance and resilience of LGBT+ communities who are remaking the post-socialist world; they refuse domination from local heteronormative expectations and from global LGBT+ movements that create and suggest limitations on possible LGBT+ futures. The chapters in this collection feature a multiplicity of LGBT+ voices, suggesting that no single narrative of LGBT+ experience in post-socialism is more representative or informative than another. This collection highlights the globally flexible, infinitely malleable notion of LGBT+ that counters Western hegemony in queer activism and communities.
Contents
Preface: Vitaly Chernetsky
Introduction: Of Constatives, Performatives, and Disidentifications: Decolonizing Queer Critique in Post-socialist Times (5606)
Tamar Shirinian and Emily Channell-Justice
Section 1: The Categories Themselves
Chapter 1: Body Politics, Trans*Imaginary, and Decoloniality (6859)
Tjaša Kancler
Chapter 2: Queering Categories: Recognition, Misrecognition, and Identity Politics in Armenia (7753)
Tamar Shirinian
Chapter 3: Escaping the Dichotomies of 'Good' and 'Bad': Chronotopes of Queerness in Kyrgyzstan (6815)
Syinat Sultanaieva
Section 2: Queer in Public
Chapter 4: LGBT+ Rights, European Values, and Radical Critique: Leftist Challenges to LGBT+ Mainstreaming in Ukraine (7922)
Emily Channell-Justice
Chapter 5: Queering the Soviet Pribaltika: Criminal Cases of Consensual Sodomy in Soviet Latvia (1960s-1980s) (7796)
Feruza Aripova
Chapter 6: Queer People and the Criminal Justice System in Ukraine: Negotiating Relationships, Historical Trauma and Contemporary Western Disc
