counterstorytelling:Urvashi Vaid by Kirsten McCrea, queer of color activist “For Me an i
counterstorytelling: Urvashi Vaid by Kirsten McCrea, queer of color activist “For Me an irresistable revolution is one in which the LGBT movement deploys the power it has gained to challenge and change traditions of ignorance, violence, poverty, and authoritarian control that continue to dominate the world. This moment calls for a renewed progressive and feminist politics defined not by narrowing but by expansion. It calls on us to answer the question posed by the Indian gay advocate and lawyer, Arvind Narrain: ‘Is the imagination of queer politics merely about access to rights for queer citizens or also about questioning structures which limit the very potential of human freedom?’” (From Irresistable Revolution: Confronting Race, Class, and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics by Urvashi Vaid” -- source link
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