Pride Parades in Queer Times

Disrupting Time, Norms, and Nationhood in Canada

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21344089
AutoresJade Crimson Rose Da Costa (0000-0002-7605-6321, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen54
Número2-3
Páginas434-458
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9495 • E-ISSN: 1911-0251
EditorialUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcs-2020-0045
OpenAlexW3118699535
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas19

This article uses queer-of-colour scholarship to examine Canadian resistances to homonationalism that target the colonial temporal logic upon which this ideology depends, a logic that Elizabeth Freeman refers to as “chrononormativity.” I specifically argue that chrononormativity is the attendant posture of homonationalism, as it is through the former that the latter is able to bring about imperialist queer formations. Then, building on this framework, I examine the ways in which Black Lives Matter—Toronto’s (BLM-TO) now (in)famous disruption of the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade provided a much-needed divergence from the chrononormative temporalization of homonationalism in Turtle Island and beyond. In particular, I argue that homonationalism is reified in Canada through temporalizing techniques that work to establish queer futurities forged around racializing narratives of Western progress and change, whereby Canadian Pride Parades operate as one such technique. The concerted whitewashing and linearization of pride parades make them into perfect sites in which to symbolically orientate white queers toward an emerging horizon of possibility, promise, and liberation born out of the biopolitical genealogies of colonialism and white supremacy. Accordingly, I conclude that, when BLM-TO occupied the Toronto Pride Parade in the summer of 2016, they disrupted this process, thereby animating new forms of queer belonging and being that work to uproot queer politics from the mythologies of a history grounded in white supremacy and Western ascendency

Aesthetics · Art · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Parade · Political science · Politics · Pride · Queer · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation) · White supremacy · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies