Judith Kiros

Judith Kiros (born in 1989) is a Swedish critic and poet. Her debut collection, “O” (2019), is an intertextual reworking of William Shakespeare’s “Othello”, and an exploration of the relationship between genre, language and blackness. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English Literature at Karlstad Universitet.

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QUEER-BODIED VOICES

Tolerance as well as intolerance of non-heteronormative sexualities and identities has been on the increase in recent years in Europe. While equal legal status for gay marriages has been successfully fought for in many countries, in others, such as Poland, the human rights of LGBT people are daily being violated and their freedom is increasingly being restricted.

Queer-Bodied Voices