Sexuality Summer School 2024: Queer Friendship and Other Intimacies

The Sexuality Summer School returns in 2024 with the theme ‘Queer Friendship and Other Intimacies’, which will bring into focus how new forms of friendship, kinship, activism and collaboration have been invented in queer, feminist and trans lives and politics. We shall explore how these have generated enduring affiliations and deep attachments – as well as conflicts, frustrations and disappointments, both in the past and in the present; and we shall trace their emergence in research and writing, as well as in activist and mutual aid networks that respond to today’s ‘care crisis’. Over the five days of the SSS, our seminars, workshops and public events will offer postgraduate students (MA and PhD) the opportunity to discuss queer friendship and other intimacies in relation to their current research or creative practices.