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Social Science Gay Studies

Disrupting Queer Inclusion

Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging

foreword by Rinaldo Walcott

edited by OmiSoore H. Dryden & Suzanne Lenon

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2015
Category
Gay Studies, General, Lesbian Studies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774829434
    Publish Date
    Sep 2015
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774829465
    Publish Date
    Sep 2015
    List Price
    $22.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774829441
    Publish Date
    Apr 2016
    List Price
    $29.95

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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 seeks to unsettle the assumption that inclusion equals justice. Offering a fresh analysis of the complexity of queer politics and activism, 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.

About the authors

Rinaldo Walcott is an associate professor at OISE, University of Toronto. His research and teaching is in the area of black diaspora cultural studies with an emphasis on queer sexualities, masculinity and cultural politics. He is the author of Black Like Who (1997); he edited Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (2000); and the co-editor Counselling Across and Beyond Cultures (2010).

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