Death and Rebirth of a Movement: Queering Critical Ethnic Studies

In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 126-132

Abstract

The author gave this talk as part of the Queering Ethnic Studies plenary session at the "Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide" conference, which was held at the University of California, Riverside, on March 10 to 12, 2011. The queering of the analysis of violence against youth is rooted in an understanding of violence that flows from projects that pathologize and brutalize youth regardless of race, class, gender, or sexuality. Social justice organizations such as Gender JUST, FIERCE, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and Queers for Economic Justice exemplify queer organizations that reject challenges to violence based on rights-based, individualistic approaches requiring special attention to LGBTQ victims and calling for criminalizing hate crime legislation and campus anti-bullying policies. Similar to other models of accountability explored in this issue, their remedies to violence must echo critiques and responses that reject the individualizing the criminalizing framework of the conventional anti-sexual assault and domestic violence movement. Instead, they call for a collective, community accountability response to state and intra-community violence. Adapted from the source document.