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This book offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, providing rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of queer Roma, which are very diverse, pose a fundamental challenge to one-dimensional, often negative misrepresentations of Roma as homophobic & antithetical to European & Western modernity.
List of contents
List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Understanding Romani identities beyond ethnic and binary frames; Chapter 2: ‘Perverse’ and ‘deviant’ queer sexualities, genders, ethnicities and ‘racialities’; Chapter 3: ‘We’re here, we’re Roma and queer!’; Chapter 4: Visibility in spaces between difference and sameness; Chapter 5: Queer belonging; Chapter 6: Towards non-stereotypical understandings of Romani identities; References; Index.
About the author
Lucie Fremlova is an independent researcher who works at the interface between academia, social movements and policy. Her close-up, transdisciplinary research focuses on ethnic, ‘racial’, sexual and gender identities, particularly in relation to queer Roma. In her innovative theoretical approach, she combines intersectionality with queer theory. Her article ‘LGBTIQ Roma and queer intersectionalities: the lived experiences of LGBTIQ Roma’, published by the European Journal of Politics and Gender in 2019, won the Council for European Studies Gender and Sexuality Research Network Best Article Award for 2019. Her article ‘Non-Romani researcher positionality and reflexivity: queer(y)ing one’s privilege’ was the most-read article published in 2019 in volume 1, number 2 of the Critical Romani Studies Journal.
Summary
This book offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, providing rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of queer Roma, which are very diverse, pose a fundamental challenge to one-dimensional, often negative misrepresentations of Roma as homophobic & antithetical to European & Western modernity.
