Jasbir K. Puar is Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. Her most recent book is The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) published with Duke University Press in the series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise that she co-edits with Mel Chen. Puar is the author of award-winning Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), which has been translated into Spanish and French and re-issued in an expanded version for its 10th anniversary (December 2017).
Puar's talk will explore a crucial shift from the incorporation of mostly white, cisgender, elite gays and lesbians into the folds of national recognition throughout the 2000s and most of the 2010s to the present moment of all-out war on LGBTQ+ populations in places otherwise projected as “gay-friendly.”
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