Event organised by the Queer and Feminist Studies working group
Building on the collaboration of different realities working on (and with) queer topics, the Queer Fragments conference was conceived as both a joyful and enraged call to action, bringing together people from different backgrounds and professions, with different identities and statuses, to live, think, feel, and create together a meaningful personal, social, political, and theoretical experience.
Queer Fragments calls to researchers, thinkers, workers, and artists who deal with fragments, fragmenting, and fragmentation: fragments as sources and inspirations; fragmenting as an instance of deconstruction and radical imagination; and fragmentation as a posture for thinking through reality and practising change. We invite participants to question implied wholes and totalities; to disrupt narratives while celebrating addenda, palimpsests, and shreddings; to ask, once again, why queer lives are made dispensable, triable, and unlivable.
Anna Borgos is a psychologist and women’s historian. She is a research fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology (Budapest) and a founding member of Labrisz Lesbian Association, where she is engaged in Hungarian lesbian herstory/archiving and cultural/community projects. Her most recent book, Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Girls of Tomorrow, was published by Routledge in 2021.
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