Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity

LGBT political movements in the United States have been successful in expediting the growing acceptance of sexual and gender minorities and increasing public support for LGBT rights. However, not all segments of what has come to be called the "LGBT community" have benefited from these gains; even marginalized identity groups have internal hierarchies that determine whose political claims are heard or ignored.

In this talk, Zein Murib advances a theory of “rightful citizenship claims” to explain why only certain members of the group benefit from political wins and puts forward ideas for political tactics that potentially benefit as many people as possible. 

Meet the speaker

Zein Murib is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University Lincoln Center specializing in the study of race, sexuality, and transgender politics in the US. Murib’s scholarship has been published in Politics & Gender, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Signs, Laws, and Politics, Groups, and Identities and other peer-reviewed publications.

Murib’s book, Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and LGBT Political Identity Construction (Oxford University Press, 2023), examines how rights claims made by marginalized groups only succeed in attaining recognition and safety those closest to the prototypical white, male citizen.

You can find their analysis of the current pushes to criminalize transgender people in Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, and online at Good Authority and on social media @zeinmurib 

Accessibility

There is an access guide for Bentham House here. There is step free access to the lecture theatre. Guide dogs are welcome. There is a hearing induction loop in the lecture theare. Children are welcome. 

If you have any accessibility needs, please send us an email and we will do our best to help you.

This event is co-organised by UCL Political Science, QUCL, UCL Anthropology, UCL History, UCL Americas and the UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences EDI team.