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Right-wing Times: Fascism, Left/Right Convergences and the Relationship of ‘Gender-Critical’ to Anti-Gender (2025)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (in press). Right-wing Times: Fascism, Left/Right Convergences and the Relationship of ‘Gender-Critical’ to Anti-Gender. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,

This article considers the role that so-called ‘gender critical’ feminist mobilizations play transnationally, not only in amplifying global anti-gender movements, but in fuelling broader left and liberal complicity in growing fascism. While anti-gend... Read More about Right-wing Times: Fascism, Left/Right Convergences and the Relationship of ‘Gender-Critical’ to Anti-Gender.

Between Assimilation and Refusal: A Queer Marxist Analysis of Queer Visibility in London (2024)
Thesis
Lakhani, S. Between Assimilation and Refusal: A Queer Marxist Analysis of Queer Visibility in London. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines how queer people of colour exist in a liminal between assimilation and refusal in relation to racialised queer visibility in London. It asks, how and why does racialised queerness become visible in London? For what purpose and fo... Read More about Between Assimilation and Refusal: A Queer Marxist Analysis of Queer Visibility in London.

The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism (2023)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2023). The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism. European Journal of Women's Studies, 30(2), 290-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068231164217

Trans-exclusionary feminists are using the trope of ‘protecting women’ as their main weapon while accusing trans-inclusive feminisms of misogyny. It is a rhetorical figure that we can call ‘the weaponization of accusations of violence’. And we witnes... Read More about The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism.

Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers (2023)
Thesis
Zhan, F. Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the representations of women’s pains, subjectivities and motherdaughter relationships in fictional writing published between 1980 and 2020 by Chinese women writers. More specifically, this project addresses three issues prominent... Read More about Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers.

Ascriptions of Migration: Racism, Migratism and Brexit (2022)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2023). Ascriptions of Migration: Racism, Migratism and Brexit. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(2), 230-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221101642

This article offers an analysis of scholarly attempts to make sense of the nexus of race and migration in Brexit-era UK discourse. To illustrate my arguments that intend to challenge and extend existing scholarship, I discuss exemplary snapshots from... Read More about Ascriptions of Migration: Racism, Migratism and Brexit.

On The Fraught Politics of Becoming: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Queer Muslim Subjectivation (2022)
Thesis
Khan, A. On The Fraught Politics of Becoming: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Queer Muslim Subjectivation. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis critically examines the production of the ‘queer Muslim’ subject in contemporary Britain. It asks, how and why does the queer Muslim subject gain relevancy in particular political and historical convergences? To explore this question, it... Read More about On The Fraught Politics of Becoming: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Queer Muslim Subjectivation.

Decolonizing Trans/Gender Studies: Teaching Gender, Race and Sexuality in Times of the Rise of the Global Right (2021)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2021). Decolonizing Trans/Gender Studies: Teaching Gender, Race and Sexuality in Times of the Rise of the Global Right. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 8(2), 238-256. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-8890523

I argue that a decolonial perspective on ‘gender’ means conceptualizing it as always already trans. My object of investigation is ‘gender’ as a category and ‘gender studies’ as a field of knowledge. In order to discuss what decolonizing trans/gender... Read More about Decolonizing Trans/Gender Studies: Teaching Gender, Race and Sexuality in Times of the Rise of the Global Right.

Sexuality and Borders in Right-Wing Times: a conversation (2021)
Journal Article
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

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 w... Read More about Sexuality and Borders in Right-Wing Times: a conversation.

Connecting the ‘posts’ to confront racial capitalism’s coloniality: A conversation (2021)
Book Chapter
Tudor, A., & Rexhepi, P. (2021). Connecting the ‘posts’ to confront racial capitalism’s coloniality: A conversation. In R. Koobak, M. Tlostanova, & S. Thapar-Björkert (Eds.), Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice (93-208). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003003199-17

This chapter is a conversation on the coloniality of racial capitalism in contemporary post-socialist politics. Specifically, our dialogue examines the contradictions and challenges of the post-socialist position within transnational anti-racist soli... Read More about Connecting the ‘posts’ to confront racial capitalism’s coloniality: A conversation.

Terfism is White Distraction: On BLM, Decolonising the Curriculum, Anti-Gender Attacks and Feminist Transphobia (2020)
Digital Artefact
Tudor, A. Terfism is White Distraction: On BLM, Decolonising the Curriculum, Anti-Gender Attacks and Feminist Transphobia

In the end, while people put their lives on the line in the streets, protesting institutional and state racism, especially anti-Black racism, Rowling, a white super-rich woman, a self-proclaimed feminist, a wannabe lesbian-protector and women’s defen... Read More about Terfism is White Distraction: On BLM, Decolonising the Curriculum, Anti-Gender Attacks and Feminist Transphobia.

Migration (2020)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2020). Migration. Lambda nordica, 25(1), 92-97. https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v25.619

“MIGRATION” IS A key topic for queer studies not only because of migratised queers being both producers of queer knowledge and the objects of queer migration research but also because of migration’s prominent position in right-wing, fascist and popul... Read More about Migration.

Confronting ‘The Household’ (2020)
Digital Artefact
Grewal, K., Hemmings, C., Sabsay, L., & Tudor, A. Confronting ‘The Household’. The Feminist Review Blog

Im/Possibilities of Refusing and Choosing Gender (2019)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2019). Im/Possibilities of Refusing and Choosing Gender. Feminist Theory, 20(4), 361-380. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700119870640

Looking from a critical race perspective at Wittig’s lesbian, in this article, I draw two conclusions. First, I suggest that it is actually trans exclusionary lesbians' own transphobia that makes them cis-gendered. And second, it becomes clear that t... Read More about Im/Possibilities of Refusing and Choosing Gender.

The Desire for Categories (2018)
Digital Artefact
Tudor, A. (2018). The Desire for Categories

Recently, a colleague ‘cited’ me in a German newspaper article. The problem is, however, that I literally have never said the sentence that was ascribed to me in that newspaper article. I assume this misquotation comes out of a desire for categories... Read More about The Desire for Categories.

Cross-Fadings of Racialisation and Migratisation: The Postcolonial Turn in Western European Gender and Migration Studies (2018)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2018). Cross-Fadings of Racialisation and Migratisation: The Postcolonial Turn in Western European Gender and Migration Studies. Gender, Place and Culture, 25(7), 1057-1072. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1441141

Looking at feminist and anti-racist approaches situated in or focused on Western Europe, especially Germany, this article investigates how racism and migration can be theorised in relation to each other in critical knowledge production. Rather than b... Read More about Cross-Fadings of Racialisation and Migratisation: The Postcolonial Turn in Western European Gender and Migration Studies.

Queering Migration Discourse: Differentiating Racism and Migratism in Postcolonial Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2017). Queering Migration Discourse: Differentiating Racism and Migratism in Postcolonial Europe. Lambda nordica, 22(2-3), 21-40

In this article I make one main argument: I claim that a differentiation of racism and migratism is needed in critical (queer feminist) knowledge production concerned with racism and migration in postcolonial Europe(s).
With my analysis I show that... Read More about Queering Migration Discourse: Differentiating Racism and Migratism in Postcolonial Europe.

from [al’manja] with love. Trans_feministische Positionierungen zu Rassismus und Migratismus (2014)
Book
Tudor, A. (2014). from [al’manja] with love. Trans_feministische Positionierungen zu Rassismus und Migratismus. Brandes und Apsel

from [al’manja] with love revisits Critical Migration Studies with the insights of postcolonial and decolonial approaches and carves out a perspective on power relations that brings together transnational feminism and ‘trans(gender) politics’.
The b... Read More about from [al’manja] with love. Trans_feministische Positionierungen zu Rassismus und Migratismus.