Don't miss the launch of Sarah Schulman's new book, 'Les liens qui empêchent' (published by B42), with the author!

In 'Les liens qui empêchent', Sarah Schulman analyses the reproduction of homophobia within the family circle, even though the family should be the place where each individual develops and flourishes.

Drawing on both sociological theories and individual testimonies, the author unpacks the mechanisms that lead families to exclude some of their members. Although homosexuality is increasingly represented in the media and in popular culture, Sarah Schulman shows how it is often caricatured and pathologised. This increased visibility does not necessarily go hand in hand with greater acceptance of homosexuals within the family circle.

Sarah Schulman makes a strong plea for homophobia to become a social issue that is no longer relegated to the private sphere, and offers ways of putting an end to the suffering endured by many homosexuals in the family home.
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright and human rights and LGBTQIA+ activist.

A professor at Northwestern University in the United States, she was a member of Act Up New York and, in 2001, founded the Act Up Oral History Project, an initiative to collect and archive testimonies from people who actively participated in the AIDS activism movement in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. She is also involved in the solidarity movement with the Palestinian people and is a member of the organisation Jewish Voice for Peace. She is the author of numerous books published in the United States. Her essays The Gentrification of Minds, Conflict Is Not Aggression and The Ties That Bind have been published by Éditions B42, and Let the Record Show by Libertalia. Three of her novels have been translated into French: Après Delores, published by Éditions Incultes; Rat Bohemia, published by Éditions H&O; and Girls, Visions and Everything, published by Éditions Héloïse d’Ormesson.

 

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