Abstract
Abstract In recent years, the portrayal of queer/LGBTQI+ existence as a foreign imposition, backed by western cultural hegemony, has gained currency in the Middle East and beyond. Worldwide, the demonization of queerness perpetuates hostility and violence. At the same time, the queer/LGBTQI+ and feminine body is becoming central to the functioning of capitalism and the nation-state at multiple levels. From economic arrangements to security policy, historically marginalized people are no longer only at the receiving end of violence and dispossession. Today, Kurdishness and queerness face comparable geopolitical contradictions that speak to the changing role of identity politics under neoliberalism and neo-colonialism in the age of mass communication. What interventions can Kurdish queer/LGBTQI+ studies make to retain their critical, emancipatory impetus a hundred years after Lausanne, amid global mechanisms of punishment and reward for the oppressed, under changing conditions for academia and identity politics, and in times of war and occupation?
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