Disputing Futures: Queer and Trans Anti-Neoliberal Utopias from Argentina and Colombia

Guest talk with with Alexandre Nogueira Martins (Freie Universität Berlin), titled Disputing Futures: Queer and Trans Anti-Neoliberal Utopias from Argentina and Colombia. The event will take place Tuesday, April 8, from 3 to 5 PM, BL 520 (5th floor, Claude Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street), University of Toronto. The event will be in person only.

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Co-sponsored by:
The Reading Group on Queer and Trans Digital Labour, the Queer and Trans Research Lab / Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, and the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Description:
This presentation explores the radical queer and trans movements in Argentina and Colombia, focusing on their anti-neoliberal, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist visions and practices. Through ethnographic research, interviews, and analysis of activists’ archives, it investigates how these movements, emerging from the Global South, are reimagining and actively shaping futures that challenge neoliberalism. The presentation examines the intersectional and prefigurative practices of queer and trans activists in both countries, highlighting how they link radical queer futurities with broader social justice struggles. By exploring the utopian practices of these movements, it seeks to offer new ways of addressing contemporary political struggles, drawing from the transformative experiences of the Global South and moving beyond the limitations of one-issue politics.

Alexandre Nogueira Martins is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin and an associate researcher at the International Research Training Group Temporalities of the Future. He holds a B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo. He obtained his master’s thesis in Sociology from the University of São Paulo, which was published as the book LGBTfobia: uma história de criminalizações (2023). His main research topics are social movements, futurity, neoliberalism, decoloniality, and intersectionality.