Queer Theory, Socialism, and the Demand for Equality
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-25

A lecture by Dana Cloud investigating the ambivalent relationship between academic theories about queer liberation and activism.

This visit is part of an eight-part series titled “RENEWING SOCIALISM FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM AND HOW TO GET THERE”.

Dana L. Cloud (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1992) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies of the University of Texas, Austin. Her widely-published research includes critique of race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture, the development of materialist theory and methods in communication studies, and the study of social movements. Her most recent book, We ARE the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing is forthcoming next year from the University of Illinois Press.