Capital contradictions in the age of incorporation: Queer and trans materialism at work
Publication Details
Author(s): Natalie Oswin, Suzanne Mills
Date: 2025
• Interdisciplinary scholarship shows that LGBTQ + people in many national and urban contexts face discrimination at work.
• The literature tends to characterize this reality as social/cultural and policy implementation problems.
• Queer and trans materialist scholarship offers powerful alternative framings.
• The conceptual frames of ‘homonormativity’ and ‘homonationalism’ highlight inclusion as a form of harm.
• LGBTQ+ workplace experiences are inextricable from cisheteropatriarchal racial capitalism’s structural dispossessions.
• The literature tends to characterize this reality as social/cultural and policy implementation problems.
• Queer and trans materialist scholarship offers powerful alternative framings.
• The conceptual frames of ‘homonormativity’ and ‘homonationalism’ highlight inclusion as a form of harm.
• LGBTQ+ workplace experiences are inextricable from cisheteropatriarchal racial capitalism’s structural dispossessions.