Feminist and Queer Imaginaries of Hope in a Turbulent Era

Edited by Mia Liinason, Professor of Gender Studies, Division of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sama Khosravi Ooryad, PhD in Film and Media Studies, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg and Onur Kilic, PhD in Gender Studies, Postdoctoral researcher at Humlab, Umeå University, Sweden

‘In a moment saturated by despair, it feels difficult to maintain hope. This book meets that difficulty head on, offering a rich, generous and deeply necessary account of hope as lived, contested, and collective. Attentive to different locations, struggles, and temporalities, it refuses easy optimism while insisting that feminist and queer thinking can still orient us toward shared futures.’

• Contents1 Introduction: feminist and queer imaginaries of hope in a turbulent era 1Mia Liinason, Sama Khosravi Ooryad and Onur KilicPART I FEMINIST AND QUEER POSSIBILITIES OF HOPE VIS-A-VIS NEOLIBERAL OPTIMISM2 The dialectics of hope/lessness in feminist academia: from storytelling to nurturing ‘quiet hope’ 19Liz Ablett and Carys Hill3 We are all activists now: activist-washing of labor and marketization of hope in Zalando’s #activists of optimism campaign 37Karolina Szpyrko4 Resistance to anti-gender movements: deep coalitions, a possibility of hope? 60Alexandra Ana5 An examination of Turkish law regarding LGBTIQ+ rights: the pursuit of judicial hope in an atmosphere of non-optimistic hope 79Işıl KurnazPART II DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES OF HOPE IN MOVEMENTS6 ‘Now, I have a mind of my own, I decide who to love’: a raging insistence on queer hope, love and liveability 107Marie Lunau7 Resistance through counter-archives: Lubunya digital platforms and imaginaries of radical hope 124 O�n�u�r� �K�i�l�i�c� �8 Collective hope, spade work, and freedom fertilizing against despair and defeat: diasporic Iranian leftist-feminist activist mobilizations during and after the Jina Revolts 142 S�a�m�a� �K�h�o�s�r�a�v�i� �O�o�r�y�a�d� �9 Europe between denial and guilt: the potentiality of dysphoric hope 160 H�a�n�s�a�l�b�i�n� �S�äl�t�e�n�b�e�r�g� �10 Finding solidarity through feeling: affective negotiations in organizing for feminist activism in Turkey 180 A�s�l�ı �A�y�g�ün�e�ş �11 “Already emancipated”? Queer refugee women in the Netherlands, dirty labor and the paradox of respectability 198 N�i�s�r�i�n�e� �C�h�a�e�r� �PART III CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC PRACTICES OF FEMINIST AND QUEER HOPE 12 Beyond boundaries: queer screens, drag dreams, and the hopeful revolutions of Filipino resistance 221 R�a�d�e�l� �J�a�m�e�s� �G�a�c�u�m�o� �a�n�d� �J�o�h�n� �P�a�o�l�o� �S�a�r�c�e� �13 In search of utopia: feeling through lesbian desires and discomforts at sapphic strip night 241 M�e�g� �P�o�f�f� �14 “Reclaiming the artifact that we have become!” Performing politics of change in Delaine Le Bas’s R�o�m�a�n�i� �E�m�b�a�s�s�y� �257 A�r�m�a�n� �H�e�l�j�i�c� �15 Transcending dominant depictions of transness in contemporary television: trans fluidity in R�u�P�a�u�l�’s� �D�r�a�g� �R�a�c�e� �and E�u�p�h�o�r�i�a� �275 V�l�i�n�d�e�r� �V�e�r�o�u�d�e�n� �16 Narrating resilience, resisting erasure: feminist and LGBTI+ storytelling in Turkey 292 E�l�i�f� �B�a�l�c�ı �a�n�d� �S�e�v�c�a�n� �T�i�f�t�i�k�17 Queer kinship, solidarity and queerfulness: three sources of hope in LGBTIAQ+ fiction 313 Marian Baden, Thomas Kronschläger and Peter Simpson Epilogue 327