Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


Introduction: Queering Urban Justice
JIN HARITAWORN, GHAIDA MOUSSA, RÍO RODRÍGUEZ, AND SYRUS MARCUS WARE


Part One: Mapping Community


1. "Our Study Is Sabotage": Queering Urban Justice, from Toronto to New York
A ROUNDTABLE BY JIN HARITAWORN, WITH CHE GOSSETT, RÍO RODRÍGUEZ, AND SYRUS MARCUS WARE


2. "We Had to Take Space, We Had to Create Space": Locating Queer of Colour Politics in 1980s Toronto
JOHN PAUL CATUNGAL


3. Má-ka Juk Yuh: A Genealogy of Black Queer Liveability in Toronto
OMISOORE H. DRYDEN


4. Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian Imaginaries
ROBERT DIAZ, MARISSA LARGO, AND FRITZ LUTHER PINO


5. On "Gaymousness" and "Calling Out": Affect, Violence, and Humanity in Queer of Colour Politics
MATTHEW CHIN


Part Two: Cartographies of Resistance


6. Calling a Shrimp a Shrimp: A Black Queer Intervention in Disability Studies
NWADIOGO EJIOGU AND SYRUS MARCUS WARE


7. Black Lives Matter Toronto Teach-In
JANAYA KHAN AND LEROI NEWBOLD


8. Black Picket Signs/White Picket Fences: Racism, Space, and Solidarity
TARA ATLURI


9. Becoming through Others: Western Queer Self-Fashioning and Solidarity with Queer Palestine
NAYROUZ ABU HATOUM AND GHAIDA MOUSSA


10. Compulsory Coming Out and Agentic Negotiations: Toronto QTPOC Narratives
AZAR MASOUMI


11. The Sacred Uprising: Indigenous Creative Activisms
AN INTERVIEW WITH REBEKA TABOBONDUNG BY SYRUS MARCUS WARE


Epilogue: Caressing in Small Spaces
JIN HARITAWORN


Contributors

About the Author

Jin Haritaworn is an associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.
Ghaida Moussa is a PhD Candidate in the Social and Political Thought Program at York University.
Syrus Marcus Ware is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.
Rio Rodriguez is a Toronto-based latinx queer educator working in queer, trans and POC communities.

Reviews

Queering Urban Justice is an intellectually astute and provocative collection of critical studies of difference. It brings together historical and contemporary investigations of sexual politics as they interlock with the dynamic conditions of indigeneity, racialization, heteropatriarchy, diaspora, and capitalism. By locating its analysis in Toronto, Queering Urban Justice offers a deeply focused perspective on local resistance. At the same time, the book connects with national and transnational vectors that link Toronto to other parts of the world, thereby revealing the city's multi-dimensional influences of activist work. - Roland Sintos Coloma, Division of Teacher Education, Wayne State University

Compellingly articulated, Queering Urban Justice collects and makes space for the memories, reflections, and activisms of subaltern communities on the urban landscape of our city. Queer and trans Toronto needs this book.

- Dina Georgis, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto

Expanding traditional queer and critical race studies towards a vital dialogue with urban cultural geographers, Queering Urban Justice presents powerful reflections that transgress national boundaries. Not only is this volume original and well written, it also responds to the lack of course literature regarding emerging communities of belonging. Queering Urban Justice is central for both undergraduate and post-graduate education in several fields, including, gender studies, queer studies, ethnic and racial studies, and urban studies.

- Diana Mulinari, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University