Decolonizing Sexualities Network (DSN) is a transnational collective that brings together academics, activists and artivists from across the global norths and souths for whom colonialism, coloniality and decolonization are central to the analytics, politics, experiences, and movements of gender and sexuality. DSN organizes events (such as conferences, panels, speakers, workshops), creates publications, provides access to talks and some publications and art on its website, and organizes forms of solidarity when called upon to do so. The network is variously financially supported by: LARCA, Études Anglophones, Université Paris Cité (France), and Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley in Huichin, Turtle Island (Berkeley, CA, USA). Previously, it received support from Kent Law School, University of Kent (UK), and Birkbeck College, University of London (UK) as well.
Website : https://decolonizingsexualities.org/about
Transnational Archiving of Sexualities: Engaging Plural Pasts
A Project by Decolonizing Sexualities Network, with the France-Berkeley Fund
SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC EVENTS MAY 2023
Friday 5th May 2023 – 14h00
Lectures Transfrontalières
Collective readings of excerpts from French (and English) editions of Gloria Anzaldúa Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (with preface author Paola Bacchetta and translators Nino S. Dufour and Alejandra Soto-Chacón)
Academics, activists and artists are invited to participate
Library Research Room, Université Paris VIII, 2 rue de la Liberté – 93526 Saint-Denis
Organized by Groupe d’études politiques en réseaux
Many thanks to Béatrice Rettig
Co-sponsored by: Decolonizing Sexualities Network; Séminaire libre des jeunes chercheur·e·s du LLCP-Paris VIII; Éditions Cambourakis
Tuesday 9th May 2023 – 16h00-17h30
Conference – Paola Bacchetta, University of California, Berkeley, hosted by the Cité du Genre, Université Paris Cité
Rassembler Dyketactics!: Notes sur intérieurs/extérieurs de l’archivage sauvage
Analyse des archives du groupe lesbien et queer de Philadelphie dans les années 70
Discutant·e·s : Malek Cheikh, Membre de la revue AssiégéES et militant féministe
Mathieu Duplay, Professeur, LARCA/Université Paris Cité
Salle M019, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges
8 Rue Albert Einstein/Place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris
Contact: Sandeep Bakshi (sandeep.bakshi@u-paris.fr)
Co-organized by Cité du Genre and Decolonizing Sexualities Network
Wednesday 10th May 2023 – 17h00-19h00
Roundtable, hosted by “Empires, Souths, Sexualities”, LARCA, Université Paris Cité
Lesbian, Queer and Trans of Color and Decolonial Archiving
Mel Chen (Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley), Lisbet Tellefsen (Visiting Archivist, University of California, Berkeley), Paola Bacchetta (Professor, University of California, Berkeley) with Sandeep Bakshi (Associate Professor, LARCA/Université Paris Cité)
Room 127, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges
8 Rue Albert Einstein/Place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris
Contact: Sandeep Bakshi (sandeep.bakshi@u-paris.fr)
Organized by Decolonizing Sexualities Network
Hybrid event. Registration link: https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuc–vpzMjEtRg1JTZEmPBN9vLtEqTR2N8
Saturday 13th May 2023 – afternoon
Archiver comme Lisbet Tellefesen
Contact: Sam Bourcier (sambourcier1@gmail.com)
Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, 13 rue Santeuil, 75015 Paris
Organized by Decolonizing Sexualities Network
Events organized and co-sponsored by Decolonizing Sexualities Network.
Many thanks to France-Berkeley Fund, Cité du Genre and LARCA for financial support.
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