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Beyond the Qeer Alphabet by Malinda  Smith  and  Fatima  Jaffer 

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Beyond The Queer Alphabet

Contents

List of Acronyms................................................................................................................................................5

List of Contributors............................................................................................................................................7

Preface and Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................................9

Part I: The Queer Alphabet & Beyond

1. Queering In/Equality: LGBTQ, ‘It Gets Better’ and Beyond..............................................................15

Malinda S. Smith

2. Developing Intersectional Solidarities: A Plea for Queer Intersectionality.........................................19

Sirma Bilge

3. Queering the Language of ‘Sexual Minorities’ in Canada......................................................................24

Alexa DeGagne

4. Black Queer and Black Trans-Imagine Imagination Imaginary Futures..............................................28

Rinaldo Walcott

5. T-Trouble: Structural and ‘Administrative En-Gendering’ as the Academic-

Corporate Complex..........................................................................................................................................32

Bobby Noble

6. Disorders of Sex Development: De-Queering the ‘I’ in LGBTQ12-S................................................36

Catherine Clune-Taylor

7. ‘Stand Up’ for Exclusion?: Queer Pride, Ableism and Inequality.........................................................39

Danielle Peers and Lindsay Eales

8. Trans Rights in Mexico and Canada: Queering the Geopolitics of Privilege.....................................42

Oralia Gómez-Ramírez

9. Homonationalist Discourse, Queer Organizing and the Media............................................................45

Fatima Jaffer

Part II: Resisting Closets: Hate, Bullying and Violence

10. Coming Out: Re-Engaging the Radical..................................................................................................50

Elise Chenier