If queerness is an ongoing, active resistance to heteronormativity, then survival exists only when such systems are continuously dismantled and challenged. The Campus Access Policy (2024) attempts to suppress activism under the guise of safety, to improve on-campus marketability, and to disrupt the life cycle of student activism to prevent meaningful change. If actualised, it is dangerous because it assumes that the University has the right to define protest and assumes that queerness can only exist if co-opted with management to be sanitised for profitability. “An Apolitical University is a Dead University” is a response artwork emphasising activism as a means to challenge the systems which attempt to undermine queerness, whilst promoting intersectional liberation for all.
Jo Staas
