Sexuality and Borders in Right-Wing Times: a conversation

Tudor, Alyosxa; Ticktin, Miriam

Abstract

We respond to prompts about the relationships between race, migration, and sexuality, as these intersecting differences have been forced into the same frame by the violent practices of right-wing regimes, and brought into relief by Covid19. Even as we have long known that sexual politics are a way to govern bodies, and to distribute uneven states of vulnerability, we are seeing new incarnations of government. What we aim to point out is how people who are seen as “different” are being attacked, maimed, dispossessed and murdered. But perhaps more importantly, we insist on the specific nature of right-wing times because these regimes not only encourage attacks on people, but on the very idea that such people should exist, have rights and be recognized and understood; that there are areas of scholarship that center them, or areas of law that try to address the inequalities that dispossess them.

Citation

Tudor, A., & Ticktin, M. (2021). Sexuality and Borders in Right-Wing Times: a conversation. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(9), 1648-1667. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1909743

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 4, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Apr 21, 2021
• Publication Date: Apr 21, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jan 11, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 14, 2021
• Journal: Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Print ISSN: 0141-9870
• Electronic ISSN: 1466-4356
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 1648-1667
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1909743
• Keywords: racism, migration, transgender, queer and non-binary communities, COVID-19, transnationalism and anti-nationalism, feminist commons,