Against Equality - Visit



In late February, early March Ryan Conrad from Against Equality will be visiting the country. Currently events are planned in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. Details of events are on Aotearoa Indymedia. If you would like him to visit your town, send us an email and we will see what can be arranged.






Against Equality

Against Equality (AE) is an online archive, publishing, and arts collective focused
on critiquing mainstream gay and lesbian politics. AE are "committed to dislodging the centrality of equality
rhetoric and challenging the demand for inclusion in the institution of
marriage, the US military, and the prison industrial complex via hate crimes legislation."



In March 2014 many of the resources and pamphlets were put together into one book - Against Equality. Ryan has described it as "the culmination of many years of collective work that challenges the
celebratory discourse around gay marriage, gays in the military, and
LGBTQ inclusive hate crime legislation within broader queer and trans
communities." He says that, "AE’s work has played a critical role in opening up
space to question the logic of equality and inclusion that has recently
become more common in the mainstream press, academic publishing, and
activist rhetoric."



Read a chapter from Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage.



Read the introduction to Against Equality.




Ryan Conrad



Ryan
Conrad describes himself as an outlaw artist, terrorist academic, and petty thief from a mill
town in central Maine, USA. Along with Yasmin Nair, he is a
co-founder of the Against Equality archives and continues his involvement in
the project as a member of the editorial collective. His work as a visual and performing artist has exhibited
internationally in Europe, Asia, and across the United States and Canada. He continues to write for both academic
and non-academic presses as well as present his written and visual work at
academic and activist conferences.
All his work is archived on faggotz.org along with his record of work as
a community activist and organizer. Conrad is currently a Sexuality Studies PhD
candidate at Concordia University in Montréal and holds an MFA from the Maine
College of Art.

Read more at www.againstequality.org

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