After our North-American tour last fall, Alexis Shotwell and me will be touring Central Europe for the next months - again giving a few lectures and workshops on our current book project An Ecology of Moralizing. Our first leg will be in the nice queer space One Field Fallow in Brussels on the 14th of May, Wednesday from 19:30 onwards.
Find our abstract below and we are looking forward to see you there!
Have you ever felt you are moralizing whether you wanted it or not? When you stood out as an example in ecological behavior or just made an irritated face at a racist or sexist comment? Morality and moralizing have for the longest time been perceived as the purview of the conservatives and the pursed-lips privileged prude. It was used against us queer and progressives. But in recent times this seems to have changed. Conservatives are more and more panicking about what they perceive as "woke" moralizing and scolding. Furthermore, fascist movements such as Trumpism can be understood - in part - as motivated by a rebellion against this perceived moralizing. How did we get there? Is it actually bad to talk about what would be a good way to live together?
We propose a queer project of building morale through better understanding and practicing moralizing. Thinking with histories of AIDS activism and movies like "Pride" (in which building morale is an essential part of coalitions between coal miners in the countryside and queers in the city), we want to think about the role of moralizing in our society. Moralizing as a process of building communities in the catastrophic times to come which have more agency than conservatives, who cling to their old morality. In this workshop Alexis Shotwell and Kilian Jörg want to discuss with you personal experiences with moralizing - whether good or bad.
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