Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis

Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis (RSE Series)

Seminar 1: Data in/as Crisis - 30th Nov. 2023, 4pm, University of Strathclyde Dr Kevin Guyan, University of Glasgow & Prof Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde.

Following the publication of Working-Class Queers. Time, Place and Politics (Pluto, 2023), this is a Series of conversations about queers in, through and beyond 'crisis times'.

Contemporary socio-economic crisis is pervasive with rising inequality, democratic erosion, and climate degradation, impacting across everyday local and global contexts. When normative neoliberal governance is itself in question, how might queer life inform State and non-State solutions to crisis? While queer life is often subject to inequality, might attentiveness to queer precarity, persistence, even progress or profit, might trigger a re-imagining of contemporary crisis?

Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis RSE Series ask if queer investments – materially, culturally, politically and emotionally – can help inform solutions to crisis as people and communities respond without – and outwith – State support.

Confirmed speakers include Prof. Matt Brim, Dr Rohit K. Dasgupta, Dr Kevin Guyan, Prof. Peter Matthews.

The Series is part of an RSE Personal Fellowship 'Queer Social Justice' (Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde, @YvetteTaylor0)

IG - @queersocialjustice

Host or Publisher Yvette Taylor