Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto

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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. Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Queering Urban Justice Part One: Mapping Community 1 “Our Study Is Sabotage”: Queering Urban Justice, from Toronto to New York 2 “We Had to Take Space, We Had to Create Space”: Locating Queer of Colour Politics in 1980s Toronto 3 Má-ka Juk Yuh: A Genealogy of Black Queer Liveability in Toronto 4 Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian Imaginaries 5 On “Gaymousness” and “Calling Out”: Affect, Violence, and Humanity in Queer of Colour Politics Part Two: Cartographies of Resistance 6 Calling a Shrimp a Shrimp: A Black Queer Intervention in Disability Studies 7 Black Lives Matter Toronto Teach-In 8 Black Picket Signs/White Picket Fences: Racism, Space, and Solidarity 9 Becoming through Others: Western Queer Self-Fashioning and Solidarity with Queer Palestine 10 Compulsory Coming Out and Agentic Negotiations: Toronto QTPOC Narratives 11 The Sacred Uprising: Indigenous Creative Activisms Epilogue: Caressing in Small Spaces Contributors