Abstract

Developed from their public dialogue at the Edinburgh conference ‘Cruising the Seventies: Imagining Queer Europe Then and Now’ (March 2019), this article discusses the afterlives of the 1970s, and another seventies (the 1870s), within the political imaginaries of contemporary struggles in the UK and France. Building on our own engagement and observations as community activists, we discuss the influence of 1970s collectives and communes in present day queer organising; the animation of a trans antifascist poetics, such as the work of Laurel Uziell, in street protests; and the role of queer readings of Paris Communard Louise Michel in the imaginary of members of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests). We argue that a praxis of ‘queer hirstorical materialism’ that mobilises the queerness and genderqueerness of historical resistance is active in contemporary queer and trans struggles against neoliberal and right-wing governments and neofascists, and more broadly, for revolution.

摘要

从他们在爱丁堡会议``游荡七十年代：想象当时的欧洲的现在和现在''（2019年3月）的公开对话中发展而来，本文在当代斗争的政治想象中讨论了1970年代以及另外70年代（1870年代）的来世在英国和法国。基于我们作为社区活动家的参与和观察，我们讨论了1970年代的集体和公社在当今同性恋组织中的影响；反式反法西斯主义诗学的动画，例如劳雷尔·乌齐耶尔（Laurel Uziell）在街头抗议中的作品；以及巴黎Communard Louise Michel的古怪读物在吉列斯·贾内斯（黄背心）成员的想象中的作用。