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Queer social reproduction and abolition: Imagining queer liberated futures Part I
Monday 24 March 17:00 until 19:00
University of Sussex Campus : Silverstone SB 302
Speaker: Talk by Ira Terán, visiting scholar at University of Sussex, Chaired by Sam Solomon, Sussex
Part of the series: Imagining queer liberated futures: Between transfeminist cultures and abolitionist horizons
Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence.
In this event series we will try to think, through queer liberationisms, radical black and Marxist feminisms, and social reproduction theories, the possibility of fully emancipatory and transfeminist futures.
Queer social reproduction and abolition
Often working-class queer and gender-nonconforming people have been pushed out of their homes, having to find dispossessed, yet creative, ways to survive and thrive. These networks of care work and resistance on the margins of capitalist and heteronormative institutions are called queer social reproduction. On the other hand, the concept of abolition has recently been repositioned theoretically and politically, calling for collective forms of post-scarcity. One of these renewed calls is family abolition, as already imagined by gay liberationists and radical feminists in the 1970s. What dialogue can we establish between abolitionist horizons and queer social reproduction? Can trans/feminist culture and fiction show us the historical intimacy between the two concepts?
Ira Terán (she/they) holds a degree in English Studies with a major in Cultural Studies from the University of Zaragoza, and a master's degree in LGTBIQ Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is currently pursuing her PhD research titled Queer Communards of Care, which focuses on family abolitionism through contemporary transfeminist literature. She is the author of the queer abolitionist essay Mutantes y divinas, compiler of Las degeneradas trans acaban con la familia, co-coordinator of the anthology Trans/bordəs (Kaótica 2022, 2023, 2025) and guest co-editor of the Transgender Studies Quarterly issue devoted to trans Marxism (Duke University Press, 2024). Her work seeks to link queer liberation with revolutionary political imagination, so as to make possible futures of communized care, promiscuous gender and lots of (eco-socialist) glitter.
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Last updated: Thursday, 20 March 2025