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Trans* lives, histories and activism

2025/2/13
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LSE: Public lectures and events
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This chapter examines the alarming rise of far-right politics and anti-gender movements globally, highlighting their attacks on marginalized communities. It challenges the notion that these movements are merely populist strategies or insignificant distractions, emphasizing the severity of their impact on trans, queer, Black, and brown lives.
  • Accelerating rise of far-right politics and anti-gender movements.
  • Relentless attacks on marginalized communities.
  • Transformation of colonial politics into something more brutal.
  • Rejection of claims that these movements are mere distractions.

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Contributor(s): Dr Onni Gust, Professor Susan Stryker | This thought-provoking conversation will bring together diverse expertise to critically examine and address the urgent socio-political challenges of our time. As gender-critical feminism and right-wing populist movements gain traction globally, it becomes increasingly critical to examine the deep historical and structural roots of these ideologies in colonialism, neoliberalism, and biopolitical regimes. These systems have long functioned to regulate bodies, identities, and communities, wielding power to sustain racialised, gendered, and class-based hierarchies.