[Clip] Gender, sexuality, and destabilization
If you think about the fluidity of concepts like gender and sexuality that are felt or they’re easy to mobilize against as something destabilizing because you have movements around gender, …
Podcast: One Change in the World
[Clip] Why is there a fight over LGBTI rights
Phillip and I are political sociologists, and I think this is why we are driven to the how question. We want to understand how these conflicts unfold. But in the …
[Clip] LGBTI rights are misunderstood in a large part of the world
LGBTI rights are misunderstood in large parts of the world. So why is it that in many Western countries LGBTI groups get equal recognition? It’s because in a liberal democracy …
[Clip] Scapegoating LGBTI groups: boosting authoritarian states
In the case of the authoritarian and autocratic states, for example, Russia, it’s pretty clear what is driving the resistance or the fight against LGBTI rights on state level. A …
[Clip] In order to have a louder voice, it made sense to mobilize across borders
it’s probably really true that progressive NGOs were the first to realize that mobilizing on the level of international institutions garners them success, and rightly so. Because think about many …
[Clip] Is there really a fight over LGBTI rights?
You have published a book entitled The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights can you tell us what is this fight about? So, actually, I can tell you a little secret, …