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"Decolonizing Sexualities" contributes to the critical field of queer decolonial studies by demonstrating how sexuality, race, gender and religion intersect transnationally. The volume maps some of the specifically local issues as well as the common ones affecting queer/trans people of colour (qtpoc). The contributions are not delimited by traditional academic style but rather draw on creative inspiration to produce knowledge and insight through various styles and formats, including poetry, essays, statements, manifestos, as well as academic mash-ups. Queering coloniality and the epistemic categories that classify people means to disobey and delink from the coloniality of knowledge and of being. At this intersection, decolonial queerness is necessary not only to resist coloniality but, above all, to re-exist and re-emerge decolonially. Contents: Introduction (Sandeep Bakshi, Suhraiya Jivraj, and Silvia Posocco) * CHALLENGE * Ch. 1 / Beyond Anti-LGBTI Legislation: Criminalization and the Denial of Citizenship (Sokari Ekine) Ch. 2 / Post-colonial Perspective / Neocolo Chop Chop / Speak Out! / The Rabid Virus / The Oh My God Farce! / As If I needed a Reason / Nollywood What? (Mia Nikasimo) Ch. 3 / Recounting and Reflecting on Resistance: The Dilemma of the Diaspora to Define (Raju Rage) Ch. 4 / In Defence of a Radical Trans Perspective in the French Context (João Gabriell) Ch. 5 / On Doing Work, or, Notes from the Classroom (Humaira Saeed) * CREATE * Ch. 6 / Decoloniality, Queerness, and Giddha (Sandeep Bakshi) Ch. 7 / To Be Young, Gay, and African (Diriye Osman) Ch. 8 / This Is How We Soften Our Hearts (Diriye Osman) Ch. 9 / Femininty in Men Is a Source of Power (Diriye Osman) Ch. 10 / Theoretical Coalitions and Multi-Issue Activism: ‘Our Struggles Will Be Intersectional or They Will Be Bullshit!’ (Sirma Bilge) * ALL POWER ACTIVISM * Ch. 11 / Dismantling the Image of the Palestinian Homosexual: Exploring the Role of alQaws (Wala AlQaisiya, Ghaith Hilal, and Haneen Maikey) Ch. 12 / Decolonial Activism in White French Feminist Land (Lesbiennes of Color [Sabreen, Moruni, and Aria]) Ch. 13 / Lesbian of Colour Activism and Racist Violence in Contemporary Europe (Fatima El-Tayeb) Ch. 14 / ‘Guarding Against Terrorism’: Testimony of a Singaporean Muslim Lesbian (Jun Zubillaga-Pow) Ch. 15 / Stopping a Racist March—Activism Beyond the Incommensurability of (Homo)Sexuality and Religion (Suhraiya Jivraj) * NOW * Ch. 16 / Building an Inclusive Mosque: A Case Study (Dervla Zaynab Shannahan and Tamsila Tauqir) Ch. 17 / Against Equality, Against Inclusion (Karma R. Chávez, Ryan Conrad, and Yasmin Nair for Against Equality) Ch. 18 / Reasons For Optimism: Same Sex Marriage in Mexico City (Arturo Sánchez García) Ch. 19. / (Decolonizing) The Ear of the Other: Subjectivity, Ethics and Politics in Question (Silvia Posocco) Ch. 20. / QTPOC Critiques of ‘Post-Raciality,’ Segregationality, Coloniality and Capitalism in France (Paola Bacchetta) * Afterword / Interrogating QTPOC Critique, Imagining North-South Solidarities (Aniruddha Dutta) |