To browse Academia. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. All Departments 33 Papers 11 Researchers. Based on a paper given at the 18th Lesbian Lives Conference Judith Butler contended that 'the lesbian' is a contested signifier for identification. To her, being a lesbian can mean various things, impossible to be delimited to a set of experiences or practices. However, if making an attempt at a However, if making an attempt at a definition she argues that being a lesbian most probably means that 'we' know of the specific workings of homophobia against women.
Reconceptualising Safety and Homophobia. What makes Europe Post-homophobic? In mainstream media and political discourse, Cologne was staged as the end of German Willkommenskultur.
The reported sexual assaults united politicians across the spectrum in their concern for the 'German value of gender equality' in view The reported sexual assaults united politicians across the spectrum in their concern for the 'German value of gender equality' in view of the 'refugee crisis'. As a reaction to Cologne and after decades of political indifference towards sexual violence, the German parliament passed a proposal to tighten the law governing sexual offences and explicitly tied it to immigration law.
As anti-racist feminists such as the ausnahmslos collective problematised the sudden interest in sexual violence as well as focus on the racialised offenders, they were framed as dangerous extremists who fail to see the real threat to gender equality.
This paper examines how the 'terror of Cologne' became an attack on the nation through postfeminist common sense rhetoric. It further shows how the conjunction of postfeminist fantasies and racial denial created a particularly precarious realm for anti-racist feminist claims. This presentation is based on a forthcoming article: Boulila, S. Christiane Carri. On Cologne: Gender, migration and unacknowledged racisms in Germany.
