Queer
Beyond Abandonment: Queer Aging and Community Care
To be queer and to be old––such permutation seems to be impossible given the realities of life especially for queer people. This dissertation chapter in progress examines queer aging in the Global South by asking how care looks like for a population who is both underserviced by the state and falls out of the bounds of the heteronormative family structure––two institutions that have been seen as the sources of care for older people.
HIV Care and “Subject Activism” in the Ruins of Neoliberal Islam
In Turkey, HIV has never been considered a domestic issue but a peril that only concerns Eastern European sex workers and Western queers, both perceived to be sexual deviants, hence, always-already ill. However the number of HIV diagnoses in Turkey has increased by 620% since 2007
Race, Foster Care, and Queer Kinship
Although foster parents’ racialized, gendered, and classed depictions of carework won them political success, they have had lasting ramifications for American families who are not white, not affluent, or not cisgender. In 2024, what little protections American families have are eroding rapidly.
Una Soledad Acompañada: Trans Care, Study, and Opacity in Colombian Prison Worlds
This research probes the problem of care for trans people in Colombian prison worlds, especially the role of study as care. Care is often a site of untidy contestation, of suspicion, resentment, and silence alongside generosity, compassion, and trust. How do we act when others’ realities are not ours, but we seek to fight for and with them regardless?
Queering Care December 1, 2023 10am-12pm ET
Fourth Working Papers Seminar Series 2023-2024 Queering Care featuring Nora Kassner, Tankut and Edward Nadurata. Commentaries by Pedro Augusto Gravatá Nicoli and Anjali Arondekar