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Subject: Book launch: Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights, 7 Nov.

Dear colleagues,


Please join us for the launch of the new book, Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope, published as open-access by the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Edited by: Nancy Nicol, Adrian Jjuuko, Richard Lusimbo, Nick J. Mulé, Susan Ursel, Amar Wahab and Phyllis Waugh

Launch: 7th November, 5-7pm, SOAS, B202 (in the Brunei Gallery)

https://hrc.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17503
This anthology is an outcome of five years collaboration and research by Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights, an international research and participatory documentary project based in Africa, the Caribbean, India and Canada. It is a book for activists as well as academics and researchers and all those interested in advancing social justice and rights for LGBTIQ people.

We will hear from the following speakers:

Amar Wahab, Associate Professor in Gender and Sexuality, York University, Canada. "Queer Articulations: On the Complexities of Sexual Citizenship in St. Lucia"

Gary Kinsman, professor emeritus at Laurentian University, Canada. "Policing borders and sexual/gender identities: queer refugees in the years of Canadian neoliberalism and homonationalism"

Téa Braun, Executive Director, Human Dignity Trust, "Global Trends and Developments in Litigation to Challenge Anti-LGBT Laws"

Chair: Matthew Waites, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow

This event is organised also with the support of the SOAS School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics and Queer Asia: https://www.facebook.com/queerasia

Book available open-source here: http://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/view/envisioning/66/185-1<http://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/view/envisioning/66/185-1?fbclid=IwAR2BOQO15-JSL4TVbxhYoONFPIw5XPdlo3Q_KSrC5B1QEuLysOpaNB_FK4A>

Purchase a hard copy here: https://www.sas.ac.uk/publication/envisioning-global-lgbt-human-rights-neocolonialism-neoliberalism-resistance-and-hope<https://www.sas.ac.uk/publication/envisioning-global-lgbt-human-rights-neocolonialism-neoliberalism-resistance-and-hope?fbclid=IwAR0tJapY72CF2TKY-vxell2eZb99Q0PtlF1mfS6sEt_h8_kP6MAnH0DTBaE>
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We look forward to welcoming you!

Sincerely,

Corinne

Dr Corinne Lennox
Senior Lecturer in Human Rights
Co-Director, Human Rights Consortium
School of Advanced Study, University of London

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