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In contrast, the ‘local’ or ‘Non-West’ space tends to be othered as backwards, oppressed, and traditional, in need of catching up.
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As a result, the ‘global’ is often understood as synonymous to the ‘West’, as a site of normative, modern and progressive sexuality. In the contemporary landscape of globalization, coloniality makes Western models of queer identity hegemonic, with little space for local queer subjectivities. Though colonialism itself is situated in the past, coloniality survives it as an inescapable power that places Europe and the West as the epistemic center of knowledge production ( see: Said, 1978). I use ‘postcolonial’ here in reference to a fragmented politics of space and time what is ‘postcolonial’ means different things in different geographic and temporal spaces.
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This year’s conference “Globalising Desire / Locating Power” took place on 29 March 2019 and in this series of posts a selection of students present their interventions from the conference.Ĭoming from a post-colonial perspective, I find that it can be very difficult to insert certain types of queer identities (like mine, as a bisexual Myanmar woman) into existing global queer discourses and epistemologies. Each year students on the LSE Gender MSc course Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation present independent research papers at an all-day student conference.