Research Catalog

Title

Queer professionals and settler colonialism : engaging decolonial thought within organizations / Cameron Greensmith.

Author

Greensmith, Cameron

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Description

x, 152 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This book works to trouble the perception of an inclusive queer community by considering the ways white lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) peoples participate in larger processes and practices of white settler colonialism in Canada. It looks to Toronto-based queer service organizations--health care, social service, and educational initiatives--whose mission and mandate attempt to serve and support all LGBTQ people. Considering the ways queer service organizations (and their politics) are tied to the nation-state, this book develops the concept "queer settler complicity," which illustrates how, and under what conditions, do LGBTQ people participate (sometimes unknowingly) in the sustainment of white settler colonial conditions that displace, erase, and inflict violence upon Indigenous people and people of colour (regardless of their sexuality or gender identity). "--

Subject

• Sexual minorities > Toronto > Societies, etc
• Sexual minorities > Services for > Toronto
• Settler colonialism > Toronto
• Settler colonialism
• Ontario > Toronto

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-148) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Introduction: Moving Beyond Acknowledging Privilege or Complicity in White Settler Colonialism -- Understanding the Historical and Contemporary Realities of (White) Queer Organizations in Toronto -- "We Had the Rainbow": Queer Organizations and the Desire for White Settler Multiculturalism -- "People Like Me?": Non-Indigenous LGBTQ+ Professionals' Helping Motivations -- Necropolitical Care: The Practice of Indigenous Exclusion -- A Call to Action: Queerness, Complicity, Deflecting Responsibility -- Conclusion: Building Decolonial Alliances and Working toward Queer Coalitions across Difference.

ISBN

• 9781487507749
• 1487507747
• 9781487525347
• 1487525346

OCLC

• 1280312112
• on1280312112

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library