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Queering Urban Justice

Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto

Edited by Jinthana Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, Syrus Marcus Ware & Gabriela (Rio) Rodriguez
Categories: Ethnic studies, Social groups and identities, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Paperback : 9781487522858, 240 pages, June 2018
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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Queering Urban Justice
JIN HARITAWORN, GHAIDA MOUSSA, RÍO RODRÍGUEZ, AND SYRUS MARCUS WARE

Part One: Mapping Community

1. "Our Study Is Sabotage": Queering Urban Justice, from Toronto to New York
A ROUNDTABLE BY JIN HARITAWORN, WITH CHE GOSSETT, RÍO RODRÍGUEZ, AND SYRUS MARCUS WARE

2. "We Had to Take Space, We Had to Create Space": Locating Queer of Colour Politics in 1980s Toronto
JOHN PAUL CATUNGAL

3. Má-ka Juk Yuh: A Genealogy of Black Queer Liveability in Toronto
OMISOORE H. DRYDEN

4. Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian Imaginaries
ROBERT DIAZ, MARISSA LARGO, AND FRITZ LUTHER PINO

5. On "Gaymousness" and "Calling Out": Affect, Violence, and Humanity in Queer of Colour Politics
MATTHEW CHIN

Part Two: Cartographies of Resistance

6. Calling a Shrimp a Shrimp: A Black Queer Intervention in Disability Studies
NWADIOGO EJIOGU AND SYRUS MARCUS WARE

7. Black Lives Matter Toronto Teach-In
JANAYA KHAN AND LEROI NEWBOLD

8. Black Picket Signs/White Picket Fences: Racism, Space, and Solidarity
TARA ATLURI

9. Becoming through Others: Western Queer Self-Fashioning and Solidarity with Queer Palestine
NAYROUZ ABU HATOUM AND GHAIDA MOUSSA

10. Compulsory Coming Out and Agentic Negotiations: Toronto QTPOC Narratives
AZAR MASOUMI

11. The Sacred Uprising: Indigenous Creative Activisms
AN INTERVIEW WITH REBEKA TABOBONDUNG BY SYRUS MARCUS WARE

Epilogue: Caressing in Small Spaces
JIN HARITAWORN

Contributors

Description

 

Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (QTBIPOC) as geographic subjects who model different ways of inhabiting and sharing space?

 

The volume describes city spaces as sites where bodies are exhaustively documented while others barely register as subjects. The editors and contributors interrogate the forces that have allowed QTBIPOC to be imagined as absent from the very spaces they have long invested in. From the violent displacement of poor, disabled, racialized, and sexualized bodies from Toronto’s gay village, to the erasure of queer racialized bodies in the academy, Queering Urban Justice offers new directions to all who are interested in acting on the intersections of social, racial, economic, urban, migrant, and disability justice.

Awards

  • Short-listed, The Toronto Heritage Toronto Award awarded by Heritage Toronto 2019