Full 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.
Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Queering Urban JusticeJIN HARITAWORN, GHAIDA MOUSSA, R O RODR GUEZ, AND SYRUS MARCUS WAREPart One: Mapping Community1. "Our Study Is Sabotage": Queering Urban Justice, from Toronto to New YorkMARCUS WARE2. "We Had to Take Space, We Had to Create Space": Locating Queer of Colour Politics in 1980s TorontoJOHN PAUL CATUNGAL3. M -ka Juk Yuh: A Genealogy of Black Queer Liveability in TorontoOMISOORE H. DRYDEN4. Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian ImaginariesROBERT DIAZ, MARISSA LARGO, AND FRITZ LUTHER PINO5. On "Gaymousness" and "Calling Out": Affect, Violence, and Humanity in Queer of Colour PoliticsMATTHEW CHINPart Two: Cartographies of Resistance6. Calling a Shrimp a Shrimp: A Black Queer Intervention in Disability StudiesNWADIOGO EJIOGU AND SYRUS MARCUS WARE7. Black Lives Matter Toronto Teach-InJANAYA KHAN AND LEROI NEWBOLD8. Black Picket Signs/White Picket Fences: Racism, Space, and SolidarityTARA ATLURI9. Becoming through Others: Western Queer Self-Fashioning and Solidarity with Queer PalestineNAYROUZ ABU HATOUM AND GHAIDA MOUSSA10. Compulsory Coming Out and Agentic Negotiations: Toronto QTPOC NarrativesAZAR MASOUMI11. The Sacred Uprising: Indigenous Creative Activisms Epilogue: Caressing in Small SpacesJIN HARITAWORNContributors
