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Friday 20 November in Belfast

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14:00

The problem with counting: LGBTQ lives, data and the film and TV industry

The Seamus Heaney Centre · Talks & books · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Dr Kevin Guyan (University of Edinburgh) shares ideas from his book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion, which explores how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the categories and classifications we encounter every day. Covering everything from quotas in the film and television industry to the design of diversity monitoring forms, Guyan argues that the promise of inclusion requires LGBTQ people to locate themselves in an ever-growing list of classifications, categories and labels. This requirement to be classified catches LGBTQ communities in a rainbow trap. Because when we look beyond the welcoming veneer of inclusive interventions, we uncover sorting processes that determine what LGBTQ lives are valued and what queer futures are possible.
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