ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes the need to think through the theoretical and political consequences of the diversification of gender-related disciplines and struggles. "Feminism" can no longer be referred to in the singular given the co-existence of materialist, eco-, post-and third-wave, decolonial, transnational, queer, and third-world feminisms. The chapter describes the renewed feminist positions that mirror the plurality of standpoints present in sexuality advocacy and theory. It examines decolonial and antiracist feminisms, posthumanist/ecological feminisms, difference feminisms, queer, and material as well as affective feminisms. The chapter highlights the political and theoretical viability of the conjunction between a variety of LGBTQ/queer standpoints and those of decolonized queer feminisms. It identifies periods of expansion, contraction, and self-critique within queer/sexuality work and practice that in some ways mirror the historical permutations of feminism. The chapter discusses that decolonized feminisms can join with forms of queer activism to overcome the political apathy of the gender era, while guarding against the conjoined risks of homonationalism and femonationalism.
