Following on from the Queer Modes of Belonging reading group and gathering, organised by Race Revolt, those of us who took part from Bristol have decided that we want to keep meeting for discussion of racism within queer/alternative communities.

Monday 28th March,
7pm @ Kebele Social Centre, 14 Robertson Road, Easton

We think that ongoing discussion on how gay rights discourses and actions are being used to further marginalise people of colour is an important part of taking action to fight this racism. We invite people commited to anti-racist practices to take part even if you didn’t attend the earlier conversations.

At the session next monday we will be looking at two concrete examples of racism within lgbtqi alternative spaces; Kinky Salon's (a London based queer sex-positive club) decision and 'apology' to proposing a jungle themed night and critical responses by queers of colour; and a critique of islamaphobia and ideas of censoring on Ladidah,a queer organising list.  We will also draw on two more 'academiccy' pieces that talk through some of the racist practices present in these two current examples.

This reading group address race and racism in LGBTQI communities,which primarily impacts on people of colour. We want to conduct our discussions in a safe anti-racist space, and therefore we have collectively developed groundrules which we ask you to carefully read and think through.

For the groundrules and the readings see:

http://queerbristolsantiracistreadinggroup.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/march-reading-group/