Introduction to Fucking Solidarity:

Autor(en)

Maria Katharina Wiedlack, Iain Zabolotny

Abstrakt

This article introduces some of the questions, activist and theoretical concepts featured in the special issue “Fucking solidarity: Queering Concepts on/from a post-Soviet Perspective”. It reflects on the usage and applicability of the term queer and queer concepts within post-Soviet and postsocialist spaces, by playfully using the “fucking” as critical term, to emphasize queer’s original potential to offend and disrupt within English language. It reflects on the possibilities of queer and feminist solidarities across the East/West divide that do not fall into the trap of (Western) hegemony or anti-Western sentiments. Framing queer solidarity as “working together,” it looks for the possibilities of egalitarian mutual support across national and cultural borders. Finally, it gives an overview of the texts collected in the special issue. The text is also available in Ukrainian and Russian.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Referat Genderforschung

Journal

Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies

Band

5

Seiten

10-26

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

2524-2733

DOI

https://doi.org/10.52323/567892

Publikationsdatum

2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/ecb15fe2-d9b3-42ef-8dee-62e8945372b4