In Eastern Europe and Eurasia, LGBT+ individuals face repression by state forces and non-state actors who attempt to reinforce their vision of traditional social values. Decolonizing Queer Experience moves beyond discourses of oppression and repression to explore the resistance and resilience of LGBT+ communities who are remaking the post-socialist world; they refuse domination from local heteronormative expectations and from global LGBT+ movements that create and suggest limitations on possible LGBT+ futures. The chapters in this collection feature a multiplicity of LGBT+ voices, suggesting that no single narrative of LGBT+ experience in post-socialism is more representative or informative than another. This collection highlights the globally flexible, infinitely malleable notion of LGBT+ that counters Western hegemony in queer activism and communities.
Emily Channell-Justice (Anthology Editor) , Feruza Aripova (Contributor) , Emily Channell-Justice (Contributor) , Vitaly Chernetsky (Contributor) , Tjasa Kancler (Contributor) , Polina Kislitsyna (Contributor) , Roman Leksikov (Contributor) , Janis Ozolins (Contributor) , Zhanar Sekerbayeva (Contributor) , Tamar Shirinian (Contributor) , Syinat Sultanalieva (Contributor) , Karlis Verdins (Contributor)
1st edition /220p. / August, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-793-630322
Bloomsbury Publishing / Lexington Books
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/decolonizing-queer-experience-9781793630322/
