In my research and for this particular paper I am interested in following SEE queer academics and their research and work, made in “Western” contexts yet having as object „Eastern“ situations and realities. I will look into the nuanced dynamics of the construction of a geographically displaced queer gaze, related to the ideas of safety and vulnerability. The angle of this research is also framed by how homonationalism permeates official political discourses with regards to other types of migration.
I am also interested in addressing the “queerness of the queer” in the sense of unfolding how Eastern European way of sometimes ignoring the rules and challenging the establishment finds or does not find its place in the proper West. If the strict categories of acceptability (be it in traditional feminist academia, self-sufficient and individualistic art contexts or in established human rights NGOs) are bended, what are the reactions and ways of breaking the “lagom” system which sometimes hides and feeds deep inequalities and social injustices?

PhD (2018) – Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest

My research interests intersect queer cultural products in Romania, literary and media studies from a queer and feminist perspective and history of LGBT+ activism in SEE countries.
I am currently working on developing a project concerning queer Eastern migrants in Western spaces.

In 2014, I started to work together with my life partner, Simona Dumitriu and collaborated in collective performances and installations at Platforma space in Bucharest, Tranzit Iași and MuseumsQuartier Wien. We are the initiators and members of a women performance collective in Bucharest called Local Goddesses and organizers of QueerFemSEE International Conference.

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