“A Hellscape of False Options: The Limits of Progressive Cultural Politics” A Talk by Dr. Amina Adjepong

Through a queer African feminist lens, Dr. Amina Adjepong explores the transnational landscape of false options faced by communities resisting oppression. In Ghana, protests against political corruption, environmental destruction, homophobia, and youth unemployment are met with police force and state repression. Similarly, in the US, calls for an arms embargo on the state of Israel and an end to its genocide in Gaza are dismissed in electoral politics, suppressed by police violence, and attacked via state politics. These seemingly unrelated contexts provide an opportunity to examine how cultural context, respectability and “lesser of two evils” logics undermine the possibilities of radical transformation.