Challenging Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Queer Politics: Settler Homonationalism, Pride Toronto, and Two-Spirit Subjectivities [Abstract]

Challenging Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Queer Politics: Settler Homonationalism, Pride Toronto, and Two-Spirit Subjectivities [Abstract]

Challenging Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Queer Politics: Settler Homonationalism, Pride Toronto, and Two-Spirit Subjectivities [Abstract] Cameron Greensmith and Sulaimon Giwa This article examines how settler colonialism has seeped into Pride Toronto’s contemporary queer politics to normalize White queer settler subjectivities and disavow Indigenous Two-Spirit subjectivities. By centralizing the experiences of seven, urban, self-identified Two-Spirit Indigenous peoples in Toronto, this paper addresses the settler colonial complexities that arise within contemporary queer politics. Utilizing Morgensen’s settler homonationalism, the authors underscore that contemporary queer politics in Canada rely on the eroticization of Two- Spirit subjectivities, queer settler violence, and the production of (White) queer narratives of belonging that simultaneously promote the inclusion and erasure of Indigenous presence. Notwithstanding queer settler colonial violence, Two-Spirit peoples continue to engage in settler resistance by taking part in Pride Toronto and problematizing contemporary manifestations of settler homonationalism. Findings highlight the importance of challenging the workings of settler colonialism within contemporary queer politics in Canada, and addressing the tensious contentious? Tenuous? involvements of Indigenous Two-Spirit peoples within Pride festivals. The article calls attention to the logics of settler colonialism entrenched within contemporary queer politics, and challenges non-Indigenous queers (of color, racialized diasporic, and White) to consider the value of a future that takes seriously the conditions of settler colonialism and White supremacy. To purchase the full article: http://uclajournals.org/doi/abs/10.17953/aicr.37.2.p4q2r84l12735117.

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