Seminar in Queer Studies: Lubunya counter-archival practices and radical hope

Seminar

Date: Thursday 9 October 2025

Time: 16.30 – 18.00

Location: Zoom

With Onur Kilic.

Language: English

Focusing on the queer (or lubunya) movement in Turkey, I will explore the role of memory work and counter-archival practices in queer resistance. Amid rising anti-genderism and right-wing populism, the queer movement forges novel forms of resistance at digital spaces where queer memories unsettle the authoritarian temporality through queer podcasting, commemorating, and storytelling. Therefore, in this seminar, I ask: what affective roles do lubunya memories play against epistemic violence? How does lubunya movement (re)imagine politics of hope under authoritarian temporality? By bringing together (auto-)ethnographic notes and interviews with activists, I will discuss the role of lubunya memories in challenging hopelessness and imagining futures with “radical hope”.

Onur Kilic is a postdoctoral researcher at Humlab, Umeå University and holds a PhD in Gender Studies from Lund University.

Theme

Gender and Equality

Last updated: September 3, 2025

Source: Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies

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