Solidarity Statement

‘Queer and the Classical’ is committed to supporting the LGBTQ+ community and stands unequivocally in solidarity with the fight for trans and queer liberation. We believe that queer liberation movements worldwide go hand in hand with anti-colonial struggles. In alignment with this commitment, ‘Queer and the Classical’ also stands unequivocally in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. In the face of recent acts of violence and decades-long suppression, occupation, and dehumanization, we firmly support the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people. We also reject attempts to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism

Listed here you can find work, events, ideas, petitions, opportunities, and other resources for our community. Please email us if there is anything in line with this mission that you would like to display below. 

Resources

• Trans in Classics (reachable @TransinClassics or on Facebook)

• The Sportula and Sportula Europe

• Trans Syllabus for Bullshit Times

• The ’In Dialogue: Trans Studies & Classics’ column, Society for Classical Studies Blog

• The Sex & History Project, University of Exeter

Petitions

• UK-based petitions and organisations: https://transrightsuk.carrd.co

• Sign to ban all forms of conversion therapy in the UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/613556

• US-based LGBTQ+ Elder Health Care Guide: https://www.retireguide.com/guides/lgbtq-elder-health-care/

• Campaign for Alice, to recognise the lack of access to gender affirming care in the UK as complicit in the death of young trans people

• Classicists and Ancient Historians in Solidarity with the people of Palestine: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJ0cOXwO9kwLgiysxh2c-UEms0zKcyaK0t5SGyAA3GwPs8tg/viewform

• Queers in Palestine: https://queersinpalestine.noblogs.org/?fbclid=PAAaZLo2JnSoi_XjhAJp_oMWhx6gKGOcKCw7qVKmhz9a81OoZ2J-icg9DNr2o

Events

• In the Ruins of History: A CAWS/#EOTalks Roundtable in Solidarity with Palestine. RSVP here. This event, taking place on 18th February at 10 AM TORONTO / 3 PM UK/ 5PM GAZA / 10PM JAKARTA time, builds on last year’s powerful discussion, which brought together over 1,000 attendees, including subject specialists, human rights organizations, and journalists. It will feature archaeologists addressing the destruction of Palestinian heritage and the ongoing silence of historical disciplines and their institutions on genocide, historicide, and scholasticide. Across the different contributions to this webinar, the event will ask: how can historians be in solidarity with Palestine, and how can we study the ancient world in the ruins of history?

• LESBIANTIQUITY is a zine-anthology of Greek & Latin writings about women loving women which will be updating weekly through 2024. LESBIANTIQUITY will present all the surviving texts from classical antiquity that depict homosexual or homoerotic activity between women: 22 authors across a millennium, from Alkman (7th century BC Sparta) to Nonnos (5th century AD Egypt). The texts are given in English translation with the original Greek/Latin and facing notes. The English translations come with a twist: they are in Root & Branch translation, which sticks closely to root meanings of words, and branches out to give variant readings – giving readers the closest possible contact with the original texts, and something like a ‘create your own adventure’. LESBIANTIQUITY has been created by an all-female(+), all-queer group of classicists, and kicks off with a preface by the expert in classical lesbianism, Professor Sandra Boehringer. Go to LESBIANTIQUITY to read the first issue, and to subscribe to hear when a new issue comes out.