Working-Class Queers. Time, Place and Politics @ Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), CUNY

Description

Who cares about working-class queers? Are queers marginal to the study of class, and are the working-classes marginal to queer studies? What methods are best able to represent queer working-class lives, or do our subjects, participants, and ourselves always become ‘bad data’?

Drawing on the book Working-Class Queers (Pluto, 2023), this talk critically engages with the experience of working-class queers through cycles of austerity, recession, migration and crises. It engages with feminist queer studies to critique the policy, theory and practice that have maintained queer middle-class privilege at the expense of working-class queers. Drawing on data from across the UK over a 20-year period, the talk considers the place of class and queer as no-go – or go-to – zones and uses queer data as a revisionist practice of ‘continual redoing, rewriting, and rethinking’.

Period	20 Sept 2023
Held at	CUNY, City University of New York (CUNY) System, Grad Ctr, United States