Disrupting queer inclusion
Subtitle: Canadian homonationalisms and the politics of belonging
By: edited by OmiSoore H. Dryden and Suzanne Lenon
Series: Sexuality studies series; Sexuality studies series
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780774829434; 9780774829441
Subjects: Social integration; Sexual minorities; Queer theory; Belonging (Social psychology)
Description: Canada likes to present itself as a paragon of LGBTQ rights. This book contends that rather than being a beacon of justice, Canada's newfound acceptance of the LGBTQ community is a smokescreen that obscures and abets multiple forms of oppression--including the marginalization of queers who do not fit within accepted norms. As the title to this provocative volume implies, Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging seeks to unsettle the belief that inclusion equates to justice. The contributors draw from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to detail how, in the fight for acceptance within mainstream society, "liberal gays" have unwittingly become complicit participants in a system that entrenches racialization as structured by white supremacy, furthers settler colonialism, advances neoliberalism, and props up imperialist mythologies (such as the one that Canada is a safe haven for homosexuals). They do this by highlighting the uneven relationships produced by normative articulations of sexual citizenship in a wide-range of contexts--in prisons, at PRIDE House, Pride marches, fetish fairs, and the feminist porn awards--as well as within the laws and regulations governing marriage, hate crimes, citizenship, blood donation, and refugee claims.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Queer regulation and the homonational rhetoric of Canadian exceptionalism / Julian Awwad; title: Unveiling fetishnationalism: bidding for citizenship in queer times / Amar Wahab; title: Pink games on stolen land: Pride House and (un)queer reterritorializations / Sonny Dhoot; title: Disruptive desires: reframing sexual space at the feminist porn awards / Naomi de Szegheo-Lang; title: Monogamy, marriage, and the making of nation / Suzanne Lenon; title: Homonationalism at the border and in the streets: organizing against exclusion and incorporation / Kathryn Trevenen and Alexa DeGagne; title: "A queer too far": blackness, "gay blood," and transgressive possibilities / OmiSoore H. Dryden; title: National security and homonationalism: The QuAIA wars and the making of the neoliberal queer / Patrizia Gentile and Gary Kinsman; title: Don't be a stranger now: queer exclusions, decarceration, and HIV/AIDS / Marty Fink.