The Cost of Getting Better:
Ecologies of Race, Sex, and Disability

Jasbir Puar

Talk, June 7, 2011, 7.30pm, ICI Berlin

This lecture examines the potential for affective connectivities and conviviality to rethink neoliberal stratification. Noting that discourses surrounding queer suicide reproduce problematic assumptions not only about race, class, and gender, but also bodily health, debility, and capacity, Jasbir Puar will be linking Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project and related discussions about the recent spate of queer suicides to broader social justice issues about disability as well as theoretical concerns in animal studies and post-humanist studies.

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Jasbir Puar is professor and core faculty member in the department of Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University, USA. She is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Her edited volumes include a special issue of GLQ entitled “Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization” and she co-edited a volume of Society and Space entitled “Sexuality and Space”.

The talk is organized in cooperation with and financially suported by
Christoph Holzhey, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, ICI-Berlin.

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Part of The Subtle Racializations of Sexuality (lecture series 2011/2012)