Pablo Schyfter (University of Edinburgh) and Ramón Barthelemy (University of Utah) discuss the challenges of queering physics education research, bringing ideas of queerness, race and class to the study of science, and highlighting experiences of institutional pushback. Shared as part of LGBT+ History Month.
In Brazil – a country that kills more trans women than anywhere else – performing trans art as resistance can be a matter of life and death. Jo Clifford, renowned playwright, writes about the power of trans art in challenging homophobic politics and the risks it entails (Reblogged as part of LGBTQ history month highlights).
.In the early 1990s, during the conflict in Northern Ireland, Prof Bell conducted some interviews with gay men and lesbian women, on police harassment for human rights research project (McVeigh, ‘Harassment – Its Part of Life Here’, 1992), which was to feed into police reforms as part of the eventual peace process. Her article illustrates the need for more awareness about the failure of peace processes and post-confllict environments to seriously addess LGBT security and peace for LGBT people. This is especially since in times of conflict, LGBT communities are often targeted in violent attacks in particular ways.
As part of LGBTQ history month, we are reblogging highlights from our 16 Days blogathon. Fidelma Ashe writes about Northern Ireland, the increased levels of security during the period of peacebuilding – which was facilitated by the 1998 peace accord –, and how LGBTI+ people continued to experience high levels of personal insecurity combined with and compounded by social and political exclusion.
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