Queer in a Wee Place explores queer identity, inequality and belonging, in and beyond, Scotland.
Building on interdisciplinary sexualities scholarship, activism, creative practices, as well as legislative and cultural changes, this open access book examines the past, present and future imaginings of queerness in Scotland - a ‘wee place’.
Scotland’s recent world-leading claims in the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion, is evident in key cultural and educational institutions, in classrooms, and across the creative sector. Yet such ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ initiatives, including recent hate crime legislation, arguably omit the realities and persistence of enduring homophobia, transphobia, sexism and racism and so re-invoke a global hierarchy of places to be.
By focusing on queerness in the case of Scotland – its differences, similarities and exceptionalism – this book demonstrates how queer inclusions, and exclusions, are mobilised and resisted across spatial scales, and the resulting impact on feelings of community and internationalism. With case studies covering law, politics, nationhood and migration, art and culture, education, and activism, this study offers an in-depth analysis of the Scottish queer experience as an illustration of the broader link between queerness and place globally.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
Introduction
1.Big Conversations in Queer Wee Places: Small, Nations, Sexuality and Scotland
Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde, UK
Section 1: Queer Counts! Categories, Legalities and Challenges
2.Yes
Robyn O’Donnell
3.Hate Crime in Scotland and the Classification of Queer Lives: Doors, Data and Definitions
Kevin Guyan, University of Edinburgh, UK
4.Queering the Hope of LGBTQ+ Rights in a Wee Place
Sharon Cowan, University of Edinburgh, UK
5.The Construction of Scotland’s LGBTQ+ Population in the Census,
Kirstie Ken English, University of Glasgow, UK
6.The Revolt and Revolting,
Jj Fadaka
Section 2 Queer States: Legacies and Transformations
7.Queer Provincialisms in (Post)Brexit Britain,
Yvette Taylor
8.Queer Provisions in a Feminist Nation: Scotland’s menstrual landscape,
Kate Molyneaux, University of Strathclyde, UK
9.Queer in Scotland: A wives’ tale in conversation,
Aoife Christoffersen, and Ashlee Christoffersen, York University, Canada
10.Being Queer in Scotland: Conversational Snapshots,
Dario Luis Banegas, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Drew Bain
11.Queer migration, belonging and ‘New Scots’,
Francesca Stella, University of Glasgow, UK
12.ASSEMBLAGES,
Mae Diansangu
Section 3: Queer Homelands: Myths, Migrations and Movements
13.Leaving Is Queer: Loving and leaving a wee place,
Finn Mackay, University of the West of England, UK
14.The Aul’ Days: Ewan Forbes and the Ghost in the Machine,
Zoe Playdon, University of London, UK
15.A Queer Poetics of Belonging: From dui Bangla to Glasgow,
Rohit K Dasgupta, University of Glasgow, UK and Tanvir Alim, University of Glasgow, UK
16.Lessons in Geography: Learning from Maud Sulter,
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona
17.Unintended Poiesis,
Sindu Rajasekaran
Section 4: Queer Creations: Vibrations, Glitches and Curiosities
18.Queer Wee Filmic Places: Creating a Utopic Gaze through Queer Film Exhibition in Scotland,
Leanne Dawson, University of Edinburgh, UK
19.Queer Curiosities: LGBTQ+ Equity in Scotland’s Museums
Joe Derry Setch, Museums Galleries Scotland, UK
20.After Morgan: On Legacy and Queer Elders in Poetry
Andrés N. Ordorica
21.Brilliant Vibrating Interface: Queering the Post-Internet through Poetry and Practice Maria Sledmere, University of Strathclyde, UK, and Kirsty Dunlop, University of Glasgow, UK
22.International Stories on a Scottish Stage: Representation, Recognition and Activism through the As Is Ethnodrama
Harvey Humphrey, University of Glasgow, UK, Slater Clain, Gina Gwenffrewi, University of Edinburgh, UK, Mathew Wilkie, Leni Daly, Odhran Thomson
23.Love, don't put gender on me
Titilayo Farukuoye
Section 5: Queer Education: (Post)Compulsory Classroom Contexts
24.Black Scottish Writing and the Fiction of Diversity
Churnjeet Mahn, University of Strathclyde, UK
25.Welcome home? Finding your (queer) place in Scotland and in STEM
Marco Reggiani, University of Strathclyde, UK, Jessica Gagnon, University of Manchester, UK
26.Disabled-Queer Student Experiences of Scottish Higher Education
Jack McKinlay, University of Strathclyde, UK
27.NOHOMO in the classroom: Queer ideas through and beyond Scottish classrooms” Dan Brown
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