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Reflections on Queering Law and
Sex(uality)
Professor Chris Ashford
Professor of Law and Society Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
@lawandsexuality
Nowt so Queer as Folk
• Time and Place
• The orbit of Manchester
• A 90s Queer
• Extraordinary social and legal transformation that took place post 1997
• Legacy of 80s politics and activism
• University 1998 - the notion of self within this context
Perspective(s) from the Coppice
• Who am I today?
• Law as a ‘Field’/Discipline
• Post War
• The textbook
• Doctrinal/‘black-letter’/theory/socio-legal
• Teaching/Practice/Research
• Law as an academic subject
The Legacy of Ideas
• Undergraduate ideas
• Why aren’t we talking about…?
• The Outsider
• Sex(uality) as an area of discrete legal inquiry: Human Rights/IT Law
• Working out the scaffolding… theory/methodology - underpinning theory
• Where’s the law?
–Derek Jarman (2000) Smiling in Slow Motion, 218
“…the sort of opaque intellectualism that tries to define something new and doesn’t quite grasp what it might be…”
Ideas
• “Awkward bugger”
• Activism - 70s/80s/90s - ACT UP/Liberation: ideas that speak to me
• Ideas of the 70s - John Alan Lee (Tim Dean)
• Art: Chad States, William E Jones, Matt Lippiatt/Liam Cole
• Joe Orton
• Quentin Crisp
• Guillaume Dustan
• Derek Jarman
• Queer Zines
Public Sex
• Online
• Cyber-ethnography
• Literature - interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary
• Archives
• Theory
Sex Work
• Cyber-ethnography
• Online spaces
• Conceptions and understandings of law
• Identities of sex workers
• ‘Straight’/MSM
Bareback
• Sex
• Slutty
• Cum
• Boundaries
• Connectivity of Self and Society and Intimacies
• d.o.c lust letters
Homonormative
• The Aggressive Homosexual Community
• A Militant Homosexual
• Queer Theory
• Responsive?
• Next steps?
• A tool (merely ‘destructive’)?
• A vision?
Who’s looking from the Coppice today?
• Law’s shifting conception of self
• Law’s future in the realm of sex(uality)
• Pathways for researchers of tomorrow - who cares?
Stay in touch…
Or write…
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