26
Jun
2014
28 iunie: critici si perspective asupra pride-ului
CERCUL DE LECTURI FEMINISTE*
sambata 28 iunie, ora 17:00
centru feminist sofia nadejde
sambata asta ne intalnim cu cercul de lecturi si vom purta niste discutii necesare despre gay pride – ce inseamna pentru noi, ce critici avem la adresa lui, ce alte critici exista, pornind de la urmatoarele resurse:
- “Too Queer To Be Square?”
- Dean Spade: Impossibility Now
- “The Uses of Negativity: Survival and Coping Strategies for Those of Us Who Are Exasperated by the Empty Promise of “It” Getting “Better””
- “sa mergem sau nu la pride 2”
- “We’re A Movement Not A Market”
- QTPOC Chat Episode 2: Pride
- “Why I’m Not Going to Pride”
- “Re-Queering Pride: Why We Need to Return to the Radical Roots of Our LGBTQ Movement”
- “Exposing Israel’s ‘pinkwashing’”
- “Gay Pride Is For White People”
- #NotProud Resistance to Gay (Racist) Pride
- Queeruption
*Daca doresti sa participi te poti alatura discutiilor chiar daca nu ai mai venit pana acum la vreo sesiune de cerc! (acest grup este “women- and trans* only” – detalii aici)!
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[…] Cercul de lecturi se intoarce: sambata la ora 16 ne intalnim si discutam despre pride. […]
si inca 2 texte:
“When Representation Isn’t Enough: Why Not All of Us Are Proud”
by Alok Vaid-Menon, RETURN THE GAYZE
http://www.returnthegayze.com/post/89995537856/when-representation-isnt-enough-why-not-all-of-us-are
“This month President Obama released a proclamation recognizing June as LGBT Pride Month. Just a couple of days earlier the Anti-Violence Project released its annual report documenting the violence experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. According to this report, this past year we witnessed a 21 percent increase in physical violence against LGBTQ people. The proximity of these events is not coincidental; they highlight a dilemma we face as queer activists (of color) where our representation is regarded more than our reality.
In 1995, my aunt Urvashi Vaid, a lesbian activist, coined the term “Virtual Equality” to describe a political moment in the United States where the gay movement had achieved visibility without actually obtaining substantive access to power. Virtual equality was offered as a critique of a type of politics invested in representation––but not actually shifts in livelihood. While gays and lesbians had achieved unprecedented attention, they were still vulnerable to harm. Almost two decades later, as another queer brown activist, I find myself confronting the same curse of virtual equality––inheriting a movement that seems more invested in superlatives than statistics.
When Obama decided to recognize LGBT Pride, I wonder if he did his research. Pride, as we celebrate it today, was established to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, an event that is often attributed as the beginning of the LGBT movement in the United States. Stonewall was not a corporate parade; it was a riot against police brutality that was initiated by trans and gender non-conforming people of color like Marsha P. Johnson. The same people who started our movement are still fighting for their lives today.
Despite recent media attention of transgender people of color––like Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox––these communities are experiencing increased violence. According to the AVP report, almost 90 percent of the LGBTQ homicides this past year were people of color. Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of homicide victims were transgender women. Of the survivors of violence, 32 percent expressed experiencing hostile attitudes from the police.
Not much has actually changed since 1969: the police are still profiling and harassing trans people of color. Representation does not trickle down to justice. …”