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Book SynopsisQueer Professionals and Settler Colonialism works to dismantle the perception of an inclusive queer community by considering the ways white lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ2S+) people participate in larger processes of white settler colonialism in Canada.
Cameron Greensmith analyses Toronto-based queer service organizations, including health care, social service, and educational initiatives, whose missions and mandates attempt to serve and support all LGBTQ2S+ people. Considering the ways queer service organizations and their politics are tied to the nation state, Greensmith explores how, and under what conditions, non-Indigenous LGBTQ2S+ people participate in the sustainment of white settler colonial conditions that displace, erase, and inflict violence upon Indigenous people and people of colour.
Critical of the ways queer organizations deal with race and Indigeneity, Queer Professionals and Settler Colonialism highlights the stories of
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Moving beyond Acknowledging Privilege or Complicity in White Settler Colonialism 1. Understanding the Historical and Contemporary Realities of (White) Queer Organizations in Toronto 2. "We Had the Rainbow": Queer Organizations and the Desire for White Settler Multiculturalism 3. "People Like Me?": Non-Indigenous LGBTQ2S+ Professionals’ Helping Motivations 4. Necropolitical Care: The Practice of Indigenous Exclusion 5. A Call to Action: Queerness, Complicity, and Deflecting Responsibility Conclusion: Building Decolonial Alliances and Working towards Queer Coalitions across Difference Notes References Index
