Unspeakably present: the (un)acknowledgment of diverse sexuality and gender human rights in Australian youth justice systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Richards ◽  
Angela Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Justice Systems ◽  
And Gender

Making LGBT Rights into Human Rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Langlois
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International System ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The Status ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Key Aspects

This chapter commences by examining the status LGBT rights have achieved within the United Nations (UN) human rights system and reviews some key aspects of their trajectory. It considers how best to interpret the varying roles LGBT rights can play in the international system, given their new status, with a critical reading of Hillary Clinton’s famous and much lauded “gay rights are human rights” speech to the UN General Assembly in 2011. It then moves on to what LGBT rights as human rights might mean in those parts of the world where this status receives little if any formal institutional recognition, using the case of the Southeast Asian region, where a new human rights regime has been established but where non-normative sexuality and gender have been willfully excluded from its remit. The chapter considers what the politics of human rights mean for sexuality and gender-diverse people in this region with reference to two senses in which human rights claims are political: (1) activists and advocates push against the status quo to have sexuality and gender issues included in the human rights discussion and (2) resistance to this inclusion is often played out by a politicization of sexuality and gender that obscures other pressing issues. This chapter demonstrates both the profound and important advances that have been made for LGBT individuals and communities and the ways in which these successes generate political dynamics of their own, which must be carefully navigated in order to sustain the emancipatory potential of the movement.

scholarly journals Review Article: Curiosity, Paradox and Dissatisfaction: Queer Analyses of Human Rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Langlois
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
International Human ◽  
And Gender

Three recent books are discussed which offer queer analyses of attempts to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people from violence and discrimination using the international human rights regime. A common theme is the way in which equal rights are invoked and institutionalised to address prejudice, discrimination and violence. The take, however, is critical: while it may be a remarkable turn of events that the United Nations (UN) and similar institutions have become LGBTI advocates, such Damascene conversions generate their own dilemmas and rarely resolve structural and conceptual paradoxes. This article foregrounds the curiosity of queer scholars engaged with the application of human rights to matters of sexuality and gender, observes how they articulate the paradoxes and dissatisfactions that are produced in this normatively and politically charged field, and draws out the limitations and complexities of rights politics in combating systemic exclusion.

Human Rights Activism, Sexuality, and Gender

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette Chua
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Do So

This chapter introduces an anthropological inquiry into human rights activism, sexuality, and gender, and proposes taking an ethnographic approach grounded in love, agency, and humanity to do so. Such an inquiry brings together queer anthropology and the anthropology of human rights to analyse the intersection of human rights and social justice activism for people with non-normative sexualities and genders. Although queer anthropology has illuminated the contingent and multiple ways of doing sexuality and gender, it usually does not examine the processes and patterns that arise out of human rights or the actions and experiences of activists. On the other hand, anthropologists of human rights have generally not focused on non-normative genders or sexualities. The proposed ethnographic approach does not merely pay attention to the interpretation, adaptation, and circulation of the substantive meanings of human rights and such affiliated identities as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT); it also analyses the emotions and interpersonal relations that give rise to and emerge from those processes and treats them as inherent to the practices of human rights and LGBT identities. Additionally, this approach is motivated by compassion for the agency and empirical realities of their research subjects. Taking this approach to develop research at the intersection of human rights activism, sexuality, and gender, the field of anthropology can further influence theories of social movements and collective action in the broader social sciences.

scholarly journals Queer Jurisprudence: Reparative Practice in International Law

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Odette Mazel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
Relations Of Power

Queer theory's commitments are radical and disruptive. They have operated to interrogate the definition and reinforcement of sexuality and gender categories, and to expose and problematize normalized relations of power and privilege in the institutional structures and systems in which we live and operate. Queer's deconstructive and anti-normative (or non-conformist) tendencies, however, can be antithetical to international LGBTQIA+ law reform projects. In much of queer scholarship, human rights activism is framed as reinforcing heteronormative structures of knowledge and power and promoting fixed ideas of monogamy, social reproductivity, and gender identity. In this essay, I work with the tension between queer theory and the law to frame the continued pursuit of human rights by LGBTQIA+ people as queer jurisprudence. I do so by drawing on the methodological tools provided by Eve Sedgwick's technique of reparative reading and Michel Foucault's ethics of care of the self to focus on the lived experience of LGBTQIA+ people. What emerges through the stories of LGBTQIA+ commitments to human rights and legal activism are not themes of naivety, compliance, or assimilation, as often charged, but ongoing efforts toward disruption, creativity, and hope.

scholarly journals In/Visible: The Political and Sexual Regimes of Databases

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Adla Isanović
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Sexual Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender

This text focuses on the politics and sexual regimes of databases and archives (and art histories) and their relation to human rights, equality and democracy. The main goal is to question, problematize and analyze the cultural and political regimes and strategies deployed in the processes involved in the storage of databases of cultural, artistic, and historical works and events, and, in particular, the regimes of visibility by means of which non-normative sexual experiences and cultural practices are in/excluded from official archives and institutionalized databases, and their consequent influence on the politics of cultural memory and heritage. Setting sexuality and gender as points of investigation, as they are being lived and experienced on the social margins, this text aims to open up for discussion the very foundations of how databases are being conceived and what counts as an archive.

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