(Politically) Black at Toronto Pride : queering diaspora, borders, and disruption
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gill, Lyndon Kamaal | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Livermon, Xavier | |
| dc.creator | Davis, Khyree Dean | |
| dc.creator.orcid | 0000-0002-0906-580X | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-11T21:35:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-11T21:35:14Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2019-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-05-07 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2019 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-07-11T21:35:14Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 theories and methods out of Black queer (diaspora) studies, geographies, and performance studies, 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 | |
| dc.description.department | African and African Diaspora Studies | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2152/75114 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/2221 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Black queer diaspora | |
| dc.subject | Racial-spatial-sexual struggle | |
| dc.subject | Protest | |
| dc.subject | Transnational | |
| dc.subject | Homonationalism | |
| dc.subject | Geographies | |
| dc.title | (Politically) Black at Toronto Pride : queering diaspora, borders, and disruption | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.department | African and African Diaspora Studies | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | African and African Diaspora Studies | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas at Austin | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts |