Queer Chimerica: Speculation and the Futur(h)istory of Homopostsocialism

Kai Blake-Leibowitz — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:49:06 +0000

Queer Chimerica: Speculation and the Futur(h)istory of Homopostsocialism Kai Blake-Leibowitz Wed, 04/02/2025 - 09:49

Wednesday April 2nd, 2025
4pm - 5:30pm

Gates Woodruff Women's Studies Cottage, Reading Room - View map

What’s the relationship between the discourse of queer fluidity and the rise of China since the 1990s? In what ways are queer history and futurity shaped by shifts in global postsocialist conditions? What stories are amplified or sidelined through the performativity and theatricality of queer politics? And what does it mean to write queerness as critical fabulations?

Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Dr. Shana Ye’s Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the US.

Dr. Shana Ye is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research areas include transnational feminism, queer theory, post/socialist studies, affect studies, and Sinophone science and technology studies.

This event is wheelchair accessible and will have automatic captioning available. Please contact WGST@Colorado.EDU for specific accommodation requests.

Co-sponsored by the LGBTQ Studies Program, the Departments of Women and Gender Studies, English, History, and the Pride Office.

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