Queer/Trans Migrations

Panelists will discuss queer and trans migration, asylum, and refugee dynamics, and the shape of sexual rights beyond the teleological progress narrative of homophobia (Global South) to liberation (Global North). With B Camminga (University of Bristol), Karma Chávez (UT Austin), Rohit K. Dasgupta (LSE), and Sima Shakhsari (UMN), in conversation with Debanuj DasGupta.

Queer Globalizations revisits the 1998 CLAGS conference “Queer Globalizations/Local Homosexualities: Citizenship, Sexuality and the Afterlife of Colonialism” to explore global, transnational, and postcolonial queer and trans studies today.

This series is organized by Margot Weiss and co-sponsored by American Studies at Wesleyan University; Anthropology at Wesleyan University; CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium; Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara; The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at UC Santa Barbara; and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst.