OmiSoore Dryden

Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging

Canada likes to present itself as a paragon of gay rights. This book contends that Canada’s acceptance of gay rights, while being beneficial to some, obscures and abets multiple forms of oppression to the detriment and exclusion of some queer and trans bodies.

"Unpacking Inclusion and Building Queer(er) Alliances" in Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action, 18, 34-46

"Má-ka Juk Yuh: A Genealogy of Black Queer Liveability in Toronto" in Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto, 62-83

Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism, and asks: What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (QTBIPOC) as geographic subjects who […]