Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis

Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis (RSE Series)

Seminar 1: Data in/as Crisis - 30th Nov. 2023, 4pm, University of Strathclyde Dr Kevin Guyan, University of Glasgow & Prof Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde.

Seminar 2: Queer(s) through Crisis - 14th Dec., 2023, 5pm, Online via Zoom, details to follow Laurence Fox, Author of This Has Always Been a War. The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer, in discussion with Yvette Taylor.

Seminar 3: Political Crisis - 29th Jan, 4pm-6pm, University of Strathclyde. Patrick Harvie (MSP) and the Equality Network.

Seminar 4: Educational Crisis: LGBTQ+ Students Unions Panel - 16th Feb., 2024, 12noon-2pm, representatives from Universities of Strathclyde, West of Scotland, Glasgow and Queen Margaret. University of Strathclyde.

Seminar 5: Political Crisis (again) - 6th March, University of Strathclyde. Emma Roddick MSP Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees. Teaching and Learning Building (TL455) Please email [email protected] to RSVP.

Seminar 6: Queer Crisis and Interdisciplinarity, 19th April, 3.30pm-5pm, Online via Zoom, details to follow. Rohit K. Dasgupta, University of Glasgow, Peter Matthews, University of Stirling, Hazel Marzetti, University of Edinburgh, in discussion with Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde.

Following the publication of Working-Class Queers. Time, Place and Politics (Pluto, 2023), this is a Series of conversations about queers in, through and beyond 'crisis times'.

Contemporary socio-economic crisis is pervasive with rising inequality, democratic erosion, and climate degradation, impacting across everyday local and global contexts. When normative neoliberal governance is itself in question, how might queer life inform State and non-State solutions to crisis? While queer life is often subject to inequality, might attentiveness to queer precarity, persistence, even progress or profit, might trigger a re-imagining of contemporary crisis?

Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis RSE Series ask if queer investments – materially, culturally, politically and emotionally – can help inform solutions to crisis as people and communities respond without – and outwith – State support.

T he Series is part of an RSE Personal Fellowship 'Queer Social Justice' (Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde, @YvetteTaylor0)

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde University Business School (Cathedral Wing, CW506a&b), Glasgow, United Kingdom