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Violencias en la industria de la intervención social

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Post date January 18, 2017
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Úrsula Santa Cruz Castillo

Hace aproximadamente un mes viví una situación de violencia por parte de la empresa donde trabajaba, la “Fundación SURT”. He pensado mucho, antes de escribir este texto acerca de la necesidad y pertinencia de hacerlo y darlo a conocer. Después de todo, como dicen muchas excompañeras de la fundación “pasa en todos lados“ y entonces desde esa lectura también podríamos decir que como muchos de los problemas e injusticias que vivimos día a día pasan en todas partes, pues para qué vamos a hablar si ya está normalizado…

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Thinking Gender and Sexuality (After) Empire and Socialism

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Post date December 7, 2016
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Workshop December 9, 2016
@EmpiresOfMemory
Max Planck Institute, Gottingen

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Belonging and Participation in the Nordic societies

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Post date November 9, 2016
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Exploratory workshop organised by NordHOME
November 10-11, 2016, University of Turku, Finland

This workshop seeks to question understandings of Nordic and national identities that rely on notions of homogeneity and to critically examine their effects on the lives of migrants and minorities. Moreover, it aims to open up discussions of how new understandings of belonging and forms of participation can be created in/through research, politics, activism and everyday encounters (in digital environments, city spaces, welfare practices etc.). How do migrants and minority organizations create spaces for participation in local, national and transnational politics? What kinds of notions of belonging and participation are created in policies, institutional practices and civil society mobilisations? How are power relations based on race, ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality negotiated in institutional encounters and social movement activities? How do discourses of societal security shape understandings of belonging and participation in the Nordic societies?

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Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions

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Post date October 28, 2016
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Editors: Sandeep Bakshi (University of Le Havre), Suhraiya Jivraj (University of Kent) and
Silvia Posocco (Birkbeck, University of London)
Counterpress, Oxford, 2016

Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions contributes to the critical field of queer decolonial studies by demonstrating how sexuality, race, gender and religion intersect transnationally. The volume maps some of the specifically local issues as well as the common ones affecting queer/trans people of colour (qtpoc). The contributions are not delimited by traditional academic style but rather draw on creative inspiration to produce knowledge and insight through various styles and formats, including poetry, essays, statements, manifestos, as well as academic mash-ups. Queering coloniality and the epistemic categories that classify people means to disobey and delink from the coloniality of knowledge and of being. At this intersection, decolonial queerness is necessary not only to resist coloniality but, above all, to re-exist and re-emerge decolonially.

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Cuando la intransigencia le gana a la política

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Post date October 25, 2016
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Este texto, en principio, iba a ser leído junto con otros manifiestos al término de la Manifestación por la Despatologización Trans de Barcelona, el pasado sábado 22. Lamentablemente la organización se negó hasta en tres ocasiones a incluirlo en la lista, detrás de las demás asociaciones que ya se encontraban en el orden de lectura, argumentando que “habíamos llegado fuera de tiempo”. Lamentamos profundamente que la inflexibilidad por “cumplir el programa”, se imponga a lo que otras transexuales tengamos que decir…