We are looking for a couple more papers for the session. Please  
contact us if you have questions or are interested in submitting.  
Please feel free to circulate.

Best,
JP Catungal


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2nd Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Tampa, FL, April 8-12, 2014

Queer of Colour Geographies

Session Organizers: May Farrales (University of British Columbia) and  
John Paul Catungal (University of Toronto)

Sponsored by: Sexuality and Space Specialty Group

What can attention to space and geography bring to our understandings  
of the political and embodied nexus of race and sexuality? How can  
consideration of racialized sexualities and sexualized racializations  
reconfigure the fields of geographies of sexualities and queer  
geographies? This session invites interventions and reflections on the  
geographies of race, desire, queer bodies, and politics.  Over the  
last two decades, an uneasy relationship between race and queer theory  
has produced exciting scholarship that wrestles with the tendency of  
queer ways of seeing and being in the world to reinscribe relations of  
privilege and oppression, especially in homonormativities and  
homonationalisms that are white supremacist, capitalist, colonial,  
masculinist and imperialist (Duggan 2002; Puar 2007; Agathangelou,  
Bissechis and Spira 2008). Queer of colour critiques like those of  
Gloria E. Anzaldúa  (1987), Jose Esteban Munoz (1999), Patrick E  
Johnson (2001), Martin Manalansan (1995, 2003), and Gayatri Gopinath  
(2005) have taken to task the whiteness of queer theory and politics,  
centering instead the knowledges, bodies and experiences of queers of  
colour. Moreover, queer Indigenous scholarship has brought to bear on  
queer theory the politics of settler colonialism (Cannon 1998; Justice  
et al 2010; Driskill et al 2011; Morgensen 2011; Smith 2010) and how  
settler colonial relations remain untroubled in queer and queer of  
colour scholarship and politics.

Despite - or perhaps because of - these rich and critical  
interventions on racial and queer politics, there remains much room to  
think specifically through the geographies of queers of colour and of  
racialized sexualities. Work that has been done around queer  
diasporas, transnationalism and homonationalism (see Povinelli and  
Chauncey 1999; Puar 2007) offer ways to center spatial relations or  
geographies in the relationship between race and sexuality. Similarly,  
work at the intersections of sub/urban politics and queer of colour  
politics have also highlighted the need to think through the specific  
spaces and spatial processes in and through which the racializations  
of sexualities and the sexualizations of race literally take place  
(Manalansan 2005; Haritaworn 2010; Tongson 2011; Catungal 2013). We  
hope to continue to build on these efforts, questions and themes by  
showcasing the broadest possible set of works under the rubric of  
?queer of colour geographies?. In this spirit, we invite theoretical  
and empirical papers inspired by, but not limited to, any of the  
following themes:

? The racial politics of ?geographies of sexualities? as a subfield
? ?Queer of colour? as theory and method in geography
? The racial geographies of LGBT, queer and ally activisms
? Queer of colour organizing and their geographies
? Queers of colour as bodies and subjects living in the world
? The sexual politics of colonialism and racism
? Geographies of queers of colour and settler colonialism
? Trans and genderqueer people of colour geographies
? The border and the state in queer of colour geographies
? The networked and mobile geographies of queers of colour and of  
queer of colour activisms
? Race and the spatialities of heterosexualities and homonormativities
? The queer and racial politics of im/migration
? Race and the queer geographies of sexual health
? Geopolitics, race and global LGBTQ activisms

Expressions of interest and abstract submissions should be directed to  
the organizers on or before October 16, 2013. Our emails are May  
Farrales ([log in to unmask]) and JP Catungal  
([log in to unmask]).

Please note that the deadline for early bird registration (i.e.,  
cheaper fees) is October 23rd.  All abstracts are due by December 3rd.

Citations:

Agathangelou, A., Bassichis, D., & Spira, T.L. 2008. Intiminate  
investments: homonormativity, global lockdown and seductions of  
empire. Radical History Review, Vol. 100, pp. 120-143.

Anzaldúa, G. 1987. Borderlands : the new mestiza = La frontera. San  
Francisco: Aunt Lute Book.

Cannon, M. 1998. The regulation of First Nations sexuality. Canadian  
Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-18.

Catungal, J.P. 2013. Ethno-specific safe houses in the liberal contact  
zone: race politics, place-making and the genealogies of the AIDS  
sector in global-multicultural Toronto. ACME, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp.  
250-278.

Driskill, Q., Finlay, C., Gilley, B.J., & Morgensen, S.L (Eds). 2011  
Introduction. In Queer Indigenous: Critical Interventions in Theory,  
Politics and Literature.  Arizona: The University of Arizona Press.

Duggan, L. 2002. The new homonormativity: the sexual politics of  
neoliberalism. Castronovo, R. and Nelson, D.D. (eds.), Materializing  
Democracy, pp. 173?94.

Gopinath, G. 2005. Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian  
Public Cultures. Durham: Duke University Press.

Haritaworn, J. 2010. Queer injuries: the racial politics of  
?homophobic hate crime? in Germany. Social Justice, Vol. 37, No. 1,  
pp. 69-89.

Johnson, E. 2001. ?Quare? Studies, or (almost) everything I know about  
queer studies I learned from my grandmother, Text and Performance  
Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 1-25.

Justice, D.H., Rifkin, M. and Schneider, B. 2010. Introduction.  
Special Issue on Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity, GLQ, Vol. 16,  
No. 1-2, pp. 5-39.

Manalansan, M.F. 1995. In the shadows of Stonewall: Examining gay  
transnational politics and the diasporic dilemma, GLQ, Vol. 2, No. 4,  
pp. 425-438.

Manalansan, M.F. 2003. Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora.  
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

Manalansan, M.F. 2005. Race, violence and neoliberal spatial politics  
in the global city. Social Text, Vol. 23, Nos. 3-4, pp. 141-155.

Morgensen, S.L. 2011. Part 1. Geneologies. In Spaces Between Us: Queer  
settler colonialism and indigenous decolonization. Minneapolis:  
University of Minnesota,

Munoz, J. 1999. Introduction: Performing Disidentifications.  
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics.  
Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis

Puar, J. 2007. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times.  
Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Smith, A. 2010. Queer theory and Native studies: the heteronormativity  
of settler colonialism. GLQ, Vol. 16, Vols. 1-2, pp. 41-68.

Tongson, K. 2011. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. New York:  
New York University Press.


-- 
JOHN PAUL CATUNGAL
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Geography
University of Toronto

"Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover who we are, but to  
refuse who we are." (Michel Foucault)

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