The NYU Review of Law & Social Change presents: Queer Liberation Beyond the Law — Past, Present, and Future of LGBTQ+ Rights
Contemporary queer rights within the law classroom are often taught merely within the confines of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Lawrence, Obergefell, and Bostock. Yet, the basic legal curriculum has yet to respond to the ways that these decisions have been increasingly attacked in state legislatures, and the failures of our institutions to ensure the full promise of equal protection for LGBTQ+ individuals in America.
Our colloquium will encourage our community to meaningfully engage in this conversation and consider the ways that each of us can forge a path for meaningful liberation. During our 2-day colloquium, to be held February 29 and March 1, 2024, RLSC seeks to explore the legal landscape of LGBTQ+ rights in the United States, the intersection between LGBTQ+ social movements and other movements for progressive social change, and a future of collective liberation from the intertwined systems of oppression that enact harm onto marginalized communities. We will hear from legal scholars and practitioners, queer liberation activists across generations, and people that have been impacted by the anti-LGBTQ+ animus ingrained deep within American society.
We intend to imagine liberation as not something that occurs in a vacuum for a single community, but as a continuous process that has the power to effect positive change for all peoples based on each community’s individual needs and shared humanity.