Rebecca Selberg explores how scholars have identified a tendency of both pro-choice and pro-life organizations to extend or transform frames by looking at the case of abortion in Sweden.
Read MoreWhen Chechnya’s president Ramzan Kadyrov, in response to reports in 2017 about a wave of anti-LGBT persecution, publically denied the existence of gay people in the republic – echoing the claims made by Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University in 2007 that “in Iran we do not have homosexuals” – such efforts by state leaders to erase queers from the national narrative ironically draw global attention to precisely the category of people whose existence is denied.
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