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Disrupting Queer Inclusion

Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging

OmiSoore H Dryden editor Suzanne Lenon editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of British Columbia Press

Published:15th Apr '16

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How has the struggle for “gay rights” in Canada helped fortify white supremacy, further settler colonialism, advance neoliberalism, and prop up imperialist mythologies, to the detriment and exclusion of some queer and trans bodies?

This book contends that Canada’s acceptance of “gay rights” obscures and abets multiple forms of oppression and details how, in the fight for equality and inclusion, some LGBTQ communities gain acceptance within the mainstream, and as a result become complicit in a system that fortifies white supremacy, furthers settler colonialism, advances neoliberalism, and props up imperialist mythologies.

Canada likes to present itself as a paragon of gay rights. This book contends that Canada’s acceptance of gay rights, while being beneficial to some, obscures and abets multiple forms of oppression to the detriment and exclusion of some queer and trans bodies.

Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging seeks to unsettle the assumption that inclusion equals justice. The contributors detail how the fight for acceptance engenders complicity in a system that fortifies white supremacy, furthers settler colonialism, advances neoliberalism, and props up imperialist mythologies. 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.

ISBN: 9780774829441

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 320g

208 pages