with Shanice Octavia McBean (KCL) and Millie, two Queer militant LGBTQ+ from London
People’s lives have historically come into confrontation – ideologically and materially – with key vestiges of power: the state, the prison industrial complex, big business and dominant ideology. Under neo-liberal capitalism increased state violence and surveillance, increased police power, cuts to living and working conditions and slashes to welfare have left some of the world’s most vulnerable LGBTQ+ people in positions not dissimilar to life before Stonewall. At the same time LGBTQ+ politics today is dominated by notions of ‘equality’ that fail to address structural oppression. Pride marches couldn’t be more saturated with corporate sponsorships; liberation couldn’t be more diluted. In this context we ask how are the contours of LGBTQ+ oppression shaped under austerity in specific and neo-liberalism more generally? How are the police used to control gender and sexual diversity? How does the prison industrial complex benefit from the oppression of LGBTQ+ people? Grappling with these questions will help point towards an anti-capitalist LGBTQ+ praxis that can genuinely fight for liberation.
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