Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto

by Jinthana Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa (Editor), Syrus Marcus Ware (Editor)

Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History, Education, Theory, Booktok, Sociology

234 pages, Paperback

Published June 28, 2018

About the author

Jinthana Haritaworn is an Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada, and a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Reviews

[Farwa Arshad]

I hate that I had to read it for class, but I actually liked it

[Ghaida Moussa]

A warm thank you from one of the co-editors for purchasing, reading, and engaging with the chapters by the brilliant QTBIPOC authors featured in this collection!