{"product_id":"queer-professionals-and-settler-colonialism-9781487525347","title":"Queer Professionals and Settler Colonialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQueer Professionals and Settler Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCameron 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical of the ways queer organizations deal with race and Indigeneity,\u003ci\u003e Queer Professionals and Settler Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the stories of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments      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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409156514135,"sku":"9781487525347","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487525347.jpg?v=1730505677","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queer-professionals-and-settler-colonialism-9781487525347","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}