Unsettling Queer Anthropology

Unsettling Queer Anthropology is the first volume to critically access both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology. Editor Margot Weiss will discuss the book and what decolonial, abolitionist, Black feminist, transnational, postcolonial, Indigenous, and queer of color approaches offer to anthropology today.

Margot Weiss is Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan, where she coordinates Queer Studies. Former president of the Association for Queer Anthropology, her books include the award-winning Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Duke, 2011), Queer Then and Now: The David R. Kessler Lectures (Feminist Press, 2023), and Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures (Duke, 2024). She is currently writing a book about the politics of institutional knowledge production and the place of desire in queer/left activism.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society, the Anthropology department, the Psychology department, the Center for Humanities, and CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies.