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DESCRIPTION:Register through Eventbrite.\n\nThis year\, Queer History Month
 \, in collaboration with IGSF\, is delighted to welcome Dr Chamindra Weera
 wardhana\, as our Keynote Speaker for QHM 2020. Dr Weerawardhana will give
  a lecture on Decolonial Politics\, Feminist Futures: Perspectives on Glob
 al SOGIESC Advocacy in the New Decade.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has been a
 n unprecedented call to take stock of the dire realities of global SOGIESC
  advocacy\, driving home the necessity of re-orienting how SOGIESC work is
  funded and executed\, especially in the global South/s. In a world where 
 populist and nationalist political discourses are gaining much traction in
  many countries\, politics of the moderate ‘middle ground’\, feminist move
 ments\, indigenous justice movements\, and social movements spearheaded by
  non-cis and non-het peoples\, are increasingly faced with new\, and in so
 me cases life-threatening challenges. This lecture is an invitation to a c
 ollaborative reflection how we can collectively envision more equitable an
 d cosmopolitan approaches to engage in movement-building\, social transfor
 mation work and progressive politics in a world that relentlessly marginal
 ises trans and queer bodies and political discourses\, decolonial feminist
  politics and praxes\, and peoples at many other multiple intersections.\n
 \nDr Chamindra Weerawardhana is a political and international affairs anal
 yst\, academic\, educator and human rights activist from Sri Lanka. Her di
 scipline is International Politics\, with a three-pronged focus on the pol
 itics of deeply divided places\, feminist international relations and gend
 er politics. A strong intersectional feminist advocate\, her activist work
  focuses on decolonial approaches\, and a holistic perspective on challeng
 ing forms of systemic marginalisation. She currently serves as a board mem
 ber of the Asia-Pacific Transgender Network. Previously\, she engaged in p
 olitics of the centre-left in the north of Ireland. Her writing has appear
 ed in academic journals\, edited volumes and in the press in several count
 ries. Her second single-author monograph\, exploring trans politics and th
 e politics of reproductive justice\, will be published in 2021. Her contri
 butions to decolonial politics involve a constant focus on challenging cis
 normativity and heteronormativity in academic spaces and political spaces.
  Chamindra is the founder of the Consortium for Intersectional Justice\, a
  platform that focuses on promoting a better understanding of intersection
 al justice in all aspects of human rights and gender/social/economic justi
 ce advocacy.\n\nWe will provide ASL interpretation and live captioning (in
  English) for this event.\n
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SUMMARY:Decolonial Politics\, Feminist Futures - Perspectives on Global SOG
 IESC Advocacy in the New Decade: Keynote by Dr Chamindra Weerawardhana
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 futures-perspectives-global-sogiesc-advocacy-new-decade-keynote-dr-324985
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