Book Launch: Queer and Animal Provocations

Book Launch: Queer and Animal Provocations

Come join us for a night of thought-provoking discussions and celebrations! Dr Jessica Ison will be in conversation with Dr Dinesh Wadiwel about Jess' new book "Queer and animal provocations" which explores homonormativity, animal exploitation and sexual violence. Dr Carol D'Cruz will introduce the evening.

There will be vegan nibbles and refreshments from 6 pm, with the speakers from 6.30-7.30 pm. If you want to have some dinner after, be sure to book a table at Hotel Spencer Bar & Grill.

You can buy a copy of the book here, use the discount code LXFANDF30.

This event is sponsored by the Reducing Gender-Based Violence Research Group.

Book blurb: Queer and Animal Provocations explores encounters between queer liberation and animal subjugation to discover how the struggles for acceptable queer identity are entwined with entrenching animal exploitation. To uncover this connection, Jessica Ison interrogates queer citizenship, animal justice, colonial constructs of the human, sexual violence, animal abuse registries and queer movements for liberation. This book disentangles the exploitation of animals from queer liberation, arguing that scholars and activists should take action through solidarity and mutual support that abolishes cages and systems of injustice.

Host or Publisher Jessica Ison