Dear Members of Queer Kinship and Relationship email list,
I highly recommend a newly published article by Ruth Preser - one of
the keynote of Queer Kinship and Relationship Conference (Poland 2015)
based on her keynote lecture.
"The lesbian complaint: On kinship, genre and being public" by Ruth
Preser, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Germany; Haifa
Feminist Institute, Israel
This article discusses lesbian relationships dissolutions and the
stories about them. Applying a narrative approach, the critical reading
of breakup stories which are conceptualized as dramas by their
participants seeks to problematize the distinction between private and
public, respectable and scandalous, normative and deviant, and
constructive and destructive in order to discuss queer publics and some
longings that are attached to them. While the contingency between the
institution of family and the politics of belonging in lesbian and gay
lives has been intensively scrutinized and criticized by scholars and
activists alike, questions regarding the forms of publics and belonging
that emerge as a result of kinship failure are yet to be explored.
Building on in-depth interviews and inspired by critical intervention
into questions of counterpublics, I ask how intimate stories of
relational dramas are narrated in an era of compulsory happiness.
http://m.ecs.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/07/14/1367549416656857.abstract?sid=55119a5e-240e-4a08-90af-5360f4c0d4b7
Best,
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Agata StasiĆska
badaczka, projekt badawczy "Rodziny z Wyboru w Polsce"
Instytut Psychologii, Polska Akademia Nauk
Research Officer, project "Families of Choice In Poland"
Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences
rodzinyzwyboru.pl, familiesofchoice.pl
www.facebook.com/Rodzinyzwyboru
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