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This event is in the past.It took place on May 6, 2026 at Encina Commons.

The Sexuality of Liberation: Iranian Diaspora and Loaned Life 1
The Sexuality of Liberation: Iranian Diaspora and Loaned Life 2
The Sexuality of Liberation: Iranian Diaspora and Loaned Life 3

The Sexuality of Liberation: Iranian Diaspora and Loaned Life

At Encina Commons

Stanford

Sima Shakhsari unpacks how sexual liberation rhetoric gets weaponized in pro-war discourse against Iran, exposing the pinkwashing and cis heteronormativity embedded in "democratic future" narratives pushed by diaspora war proponents.

academic lecture
gender & sexuality studies
anti-war discourse
Iranian diaspora

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📚by author of Politics of Rightful Killing
🎤incoming President of Middle East Studies AAA
⚡provocative critique of pinkwashing in war rhetoric

Encina Commons

Encina Commons, 615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

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The Sexuality of Liberation: Iranian Diaspora and Loaned Life - Outgoing