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This book analyzes queer organizations in Canada and explores the ways health care, counselling, and social services address the intersecting oppressions facing Indigenous people, families, and communities.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moving beyond Acknowledging Privilege or Complicity in White Settler Colonialism
1. Understanding the Historical and Contemporary Realities of (White) Queer Organizations in Toronto
2. "We Had the Rainbow": Queer Organizations and the Desire for White Settler Multiculturalism
3. "People Like Me?": Non-Indigenous LGBTQ2S+ Professionals’ Helping Motivations
4. Necropolitical Care: The Practice of Indigenous Exclusion
5. A Call to Action: Queerness, Complicity, and Deflecting Responsibility
Conclusion: Building Decolonial Alliances and Working towards Queer Coalitions across Difference
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Cameron Greensmith is an associate professor in the Department of Social Work and Human Services at Kennesaw State University.
Summary
This book analyzes queer organizations in Canada and explores the ways health care, counselling, and social services address the intersecting oppressions facing Indigenous people, families, and communities.
