Decolonizing Sexualities Network (DSN) is a transnational collective that brings together academics, activists and artivists from across the global norths and souths for whom colonialism, coloniality and decolonization are central to the analytics, politics, experiences, and movements of gender and sexuality. DSN organizes events (such as conferences, panels, speakers, workshops), creates publications, provides access to talks and some publications and art on its website, and organizes forms of solidarity when called upon to do so. The network is variously financially supported by: LARCA, Études Anglophones, Université Paris Cité (France), and Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley in Huichin, Turtle Island (Berkeley, CA, USA). Previously, it received support from Kent Law School, University of Kent (UK), and Birkbeck College, University of London (UK) as well.

Painting by Tupili Lea ArellanoFor more information, contact leaestrella@sbcglobal.net

Painting by Tupili Lea Arellano

For more information, contact leaestrella@sbcglobal.net

Decolonial cafés are held in various sites transnationally with the aim of enhancing and encouraging exchange between various social actors and activists.

Check out the March 2021 Cafe !

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…Contributions range across activism, politics, poetics and theory, urging a solidarity of approach among these realms. The range and depth of these contributions …. highlight the fact that we can no longer assume or theorize an LGBT identity or politics that is constituted outside of racialization, coloniality, place and time.”

DSN publication review by Momin Rahman, Professor of Sociology, Trent University, Canada