Intersectionality and LGBT Activist Politics

This volume combines empirically oriented and theoretically grounded reflections upon various forms of LGBT activist engagement to examine how the notion of intersectionality enters the political context of contemporary Serbia and Croatia. By uncovering experiences of multiple oppression and voicing fear and frustration that accompany exclusionary practices, the contributions to this book seek to reinvigorate the critical potential of intersectionality, in order to generate the basis for wider political alliances and solidarities in the post-Yugoslav space. The authors, both activists and academics, challenge the systematic absence of discussions of (post-)Yugoslav LGBT activist initiatives in recent social science scholarship, and show how emancipatory politics of resistance can reshape what is possible to imagine as identity and community in post-war and post-socialist societies.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of history and politics of Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav states, as well as to those working in the fields of political sociology, European studies, social movements, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, and queer theory and activism.

Redresses a huge imbalance between Western and Eastern European research on LGBT activism Highlights how the emancipatory politics of resistance can reshape identity and community in the post-war Croatia and Serbia Includes personal accounts from LGBT communities and activists

Autorentext

Bojan Bili is Marie Curie Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Sanja Kajini is MIREES academic tutor and lecturer at the University of Bologna, School of Political Sciences, Forlì, Italy.

Inhalt

Foreword: Searching for Our Lesbian Nests in Yugoslavia and After; Lepa Mlaenovi.- 1. LGBT Activist Politics and Intersectionality in Croatia and Serbia: An Introduction; Bojan Bili and Sanja Kajini.- Part I: Widening the Community.- 2. The (In)Visible T: Trans Activism in Croatia (2004-2014)

Amir Hodi, J. Poti and Arian Kajtezovi.- 3. Against Bisexual Erasure: The Beginnings of Bi Activism in Serbia; Radica Hura.- 4.Uncovering an A: Asexuality and Asexual Activism in Croatia and Serbia

Milica Batrievi and Andrej Cveti.- 5. Queer Beograd Collective: Beyond Single-Issue Activism in Serbia and the Post-Yugoslav Space; Bojan Bili and Irene Dioli.- Part 2: At the Crossroads of Oppression.- 6/ Nowhere at Home: Homelessness, Non-Heterosexuality, and LGBT Activism in Croatia; Antonela Marui and Bojan Bili.- 7. Normalisation, Discipline, and Conflict: Intersections of LGBT Rights and Workers' Rights in Serbia; Irene Dioli.- 8.Towards a More Inclusive Pride?: Representing Multiple Discriminations in the Belgrade Pride Parade; Marija Radoman.- 9. White Angels Zagreb: Combating Homophobia as Rural Primitivism; Andrew Hodges.- 10. Queer Struggles and the Left in Serbia and Croatia: An Afterword; Duan Maljkovi