LGBT History Month

LGBT+ Youth, Violence & Political Activism

23 Feb

Date: Monday 23 February 2026
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Room 163, Clarice Pears Social Health and Wellbeing Building
Speaker: Professor Dennis Francis

This talk tracks how cisheteronormativity is (re)produced in South African schools and society through everyday practices, and how these are resisted. In some schools, for example, where cisheteronormativity is ubiquitous and unquestioned, youth’s identification as LGBT+ is itself a significant act of resistance against normative power.

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Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion

25 Feb

Date: Wednesday 25 February 2026
Time: 10:15 - 12:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Studio 2, The Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW
Speaker: Dr Kevin Guyan

The fight for LGBTQ+ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the design and control of categories of gender, sex and sexuality.

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