Friday 20 November · Talks & books · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
The problem with counting: LGBTQ lives, data and the film and TV industry
The Seamus Heaney Centre · Belfast
- When
- Fri 20 Nov 14:00
- Price
- £5
plus a 10 booking fee
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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.