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Please join the Sociology Department for a presentation by
Dr. Cameron Greensmith
Unsettling Queer Complicity: Working Toward Institutional and Individual Change
What does it mean to be an inclusive queer organization? What does the labour of inclusion look like within queer organizations? What kinds of exclusions take place within the lexicons of inclusion and diversity? Centering a critical race and settler colonial analytic, this talk works to unearth the violence of queer organizations in contemporary Canada. I base this inquiry within my own activism and organizing in Toronto’s queer communities, and utilize the stories shared by 41 non-Indigenous lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and trans (LGBTQ) service providers and volunteers working in downtown Toronto. I highlight the problematic of ‘queer inclusion,’ by addressing the ways queer service providers and volunteers uplift the whiteness of queerness. In unsettling queer complicities, this talk concludes by centering ‘responsibility,’ as a key marker for social change.
May 19, 2017
9:00 am
Room A580
Contact:
Jenny Oseen | oseejs@uleth.ca | (403) 329-2551