Queer Subjects and the Contemporary United States (University of East Anglia)
Queer Subjects and the Contemporary United States A one-day colloquium hosted by the School of Art, Media, and American Studies 5th August 2017 9am-6pm University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, U.K. Keynote: Sam McBean (Queen Mary, University of London) queersubjectsblog.wordpress.com Recent upheaval from the Trump administration’s policy-making in the United States has seen the lives of queer subjects radically altered. This has included numerous executive orders that seek to curtail the power and agency of certain groups based on race, disability, gender, and sexuality particularly. Such identity distinctions are being made through an increasingly nationalist, and therefore heteronormative, lens which lends itself to the supremacy of ideals that support hegemonic cultural discourse. This one-day colloquium aims to highlight queer subjectivities in the contemporary context of the United States, and seeks to uncover modes of resistance and ways in which the queer subject can lay claim to public and private […]