Gender and Sexualities Studies in Difficult Times: Uncertain Presents, Coalitional Futures

This themed section of Socioscapes. International Journal of Societies, Politics and Cultures problematises the sense of crisis as ‘exceptional’, which circulated in the media and political discourses during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we resume interrupted conversations in, through and against our ‘business as usual’, as the normative background against which we pause on and press against, we feel a renewed sense of urgency in looking at persistent and enduring inequalities – some long-standing, already endemic, and others exacerbated by the intersecting crises of our times, including and exceeding COVID-19.