Solidarities and tensions

Feminism and transnational LGBTQ politics in Poland

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12527976
AutoresJ Binnie (0000-0001-6217-7774, Manchester Metropolitan University, autor correspondente), C Klesse (0000-0001-7439-2623, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Ano2012
Volume19
Fascículo4
Páginas444-459
Data de publicação2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-5068 • E-ISSN: 1461-7420
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1350506812466610
OpenAlexW2313532613
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas26

This article explores the significance of feminism in transnational activism around LGBTQ protest events, namely equality marches and associated festivals in Kraków, Poznań and Warsaw in Poland. The arguments advanced in this article are based on a multi-method qualitative research project focusing on transnational cooperation in the planning and realization of LGBTQ protest events in Poland, conducted in the years 2008–2009. The authors highlight the decisively coalitional nature of the activist networks around LGBTQ politics in some of the locations studied. They argue that feminists are core actors in these ‘networked solidarities’ around the oppression and marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgender people both in local and transnational contexts. Solidarity is a concept used by many research participants to account for their political actions and to rationalize intra- and intergroup dynamics shaped by complex webs of differences. The authors draw on postcolonial feminist discussions on the limits and potentialities of politics of solidarity as a ‘politics of location’ to account for tensions which some activists reported regarding their experience of ‘coalition work’. Some of these tensions related to gender politics and gender relations, always articulated in the conjunction of wider webs of power relations

Feminism · Lesbian · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Queer · Sociology · Solidarity · Transgender · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law