Suzanne Lenon
Biographic Data
| ID | 161934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Lenon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Lenon |
| SIGNATURE | LENON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4411-2437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Roundtable
This roundtable brings together some of the contributors from our book Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging (UBC Press 2015) to reflect on their chapters and provide some insights regarding their thinking on homonationalism over the past decade, and where their chapters fit into areas of scholarship and activists movements in the present moment. We were unable to get everyone together in one place to discuss …
Queer Palestinian Solidarity Work
We sat down with Deborah Cowen and Natalie Kouri-Towe to talk about their long-standing involvement with queer/Palestine liberation and solidarity work. We were interested in the connections between Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) and the Palestinian solidarity encampments/anti-genocide actions happening across university campuses. Below is a portion of this conversation, edited for continuity and clarity. We are deeply appreciative to b…
Introduction—Beyond Homonationalisms
Polygamy, State Racism, and the Return of Barbarism
This article examines the race-thinking and colonial reasoning circulating in two recent developments in Canadian law with respect to polygamous marriage: the Polygamy Reference (2011) that upheld the Criminal Code provision on polygamy and the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act (2015). This legislation introduced changes to Canada’s immigration regulations, which include the practice of polygamy as a basis for refusing foreign ap…
Making It Right,” Keeping It White
This article examines the Egale Human Rights Trust’s Just Society Report and, in particular, its call for the federal government to offer an intersectional apology to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit, intersex people for historical injustices. I am interested in the work that suturing intersectionality to an apology for historical wrongs does. The article argues that, as it is deployed in this report, under the terms of dive…
Inheritance's Intimacies and Social Change
Wrongful’ Inheritance
Peter Knegt, About Canada
Hidden Hegemonies of the Rainbow
Over the course of the last decade, law and policymakers in Britain have grappled with two seemingly unrelated social issues: forced marriages, and civil partnerships for lesbians and gay men. This paper examines the legal and policy responses to these two issues, not as discrete state projects but rather as legislative and policy initiatives that share a historical present deeply preoccupied with the interlock of terrorism, immigration and borde…
Why is our love an issue
This article analyzes the implicit white racial normativity underpinning the socio-legal struggle for same-sex marriage in Canada. I argue that discursive representations of ‘ordinary lives’ require alignment with terms of neoliberal citizenship – the privacy of property and intimacy – that hold whiteness as the unspoken yet aspirational ideal. As a contestation of heteronormative citizenship, same-sex marriage is not simply a politics of sexuali…
Why is our love an issue
This article analyzes the implicit white racial normativity underpinning the socio-legal struggle for same-sex marriage in Canada. I argue that discursive representations of ‘ordinary lives’ require alignment with terms of neoliberal citizenship – the privacy of property and intimacy – that hold whiteness as the unspoken yet aspirational ideal. As a contestation of heteronormative citizenship, same-sex marriage is not simply a politics of sexuali…
Hidden Hegemonies of the Rainbow
Over the course of the last decade, law and policymakers in Britain have grappled with two seemingly unrelated social issues: forced marriages, and civil partnerships for lesbians and gay men. This paper examines the legal and policy responses to these two issues, not as discrete state projects but rather as legislative and policy initiatives that share a historical present deeply preoccupied with the interlock of terrorism, immigration and borde…
Why is our love an issue
This article analyzes the implicit white racial normativity underpinning the socio-legal struggle for same-sex marriage in Canada. I argue that discursive representations of ‘ordinary lives’ require alignment with terms of neoliberal citizenship – the privacy of property and intimacy – that hold whiteness as the unspoken yet aspirational ideal. As a contestation of heteronormative citizenship, same-sex marriage is not simply a politics of sexuali…
Hidden Hegemonies of the Rainbow
Over the course of the last decade, law and policymakers in Britain have grappled with two seemingly unrelated social issues: forced marriages, and civil partnerships for lesbians and gay men. This paper examines the legal and policy responses to these two issues, not as discrete state projects but rather as legislative and policy initiatives that share a historical present deeply preoccupied with the interlock of terrorism, immigration and borde…
Peter Knegt, About Canada
Inheritance's Intimacies and Social Change
Wrongful’ Inheritance
Making It Right,” Keeping It White
This article examines the Egale Human Rights Trust’s Just Society Report and, in particular, its call for the federal government to offer an intersectional apology to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit, intersex people for historical injustices. I am interested in the work that suturing intersectionality to an apology for historical wrongs does. The article argues that, as it is deployed in this report, under the terms of dive…
Polygamy, State Racism, and the Return of Barbarism
This article examines the race-thinking and colonial reasoning circulating in two recent developments in Canadian law with respect to polygamous marriage: the Polygamy Reference (2011) that upheld the Criminal Code provision on polygamy and the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act (2015). This legislation introduced changes to Canada’s immigration regulations, which include the practice of polygamy as a basis for refusing foreign ap…
Roundtable
This roundtable brings together some of the contributors from our book Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging (UBC Press 2015) to reflect on their chapters and provide some insights regarding their thinking on homonationalism over the past decade, and where their chapters fit into areas of scholarship and activists movements in the present moment. We were unable to get everyone together in one place to discuss …
Queer Palestinian Solidarity Work
We sat down with Deborah Cowen and Natalie Kouri-Towe to talk about their long-standing involvement with queer/Palestine liberation and solidarity work. We were interested in the connections between Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) and the Palestinian solidarity encampments/anti-genocide actions happening across university campuses. Below is a portion of this conversation, edited for continuity and clarity. We are deeply appreciative to b…
Introduction—Beyond Homonationalisms
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Citizenship (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)