Transnational blackness at Toronto Pride
Queer disruption as theory and method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12293003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Khyree Dean Davis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1541-1560 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Place & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-369X • E-ISSN: 1360-0524 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0966369x.2020.1819208 |
| OpenAlex | W3092413291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 10 |
On July 3, 2016, the Toronto Pride parade began its procession down Toronto streets. Before it would end, Black Lives Matter – Toronto organizers would disrupt the event with a protest. This collective of Black queer and trans organizers demanded the attention of Toronto Pride and its participants in a manner which challenges the normalization of state-presence and involvement in Pride, Toronto Pride’s own anti-Black histories, as well as myths surrounding the multiculturalism of Canada’s society and government. Black Lives Matter – Toronto’s use of the Black Lives Matter global network, its own membership’s diaspora positionalities, and its deployment of protest within a homonationalist context all work to forward a Black queer diaspora and geopolitical critique of homonormativity and anti-Blackness enacted and practiced by mainstream gay spaces, like Toronto Pride, and settler-colonial states, like Canada. Embracing this disruption as theoretical and deploying similar methodological disruptions within the text, this project reveals that Black Lives Matter – Toronto and their protest function as transnational resistance against an international project of anti-Blackness at the same time it operates in a distinct local-national context
Context (archaeology · Diaspora · Geopolitics · Media studies · Parade · Political science · Politics · Pride · Queer · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |