Title: Unsettling the GLBT and Queer Coalitions in US Politics Through the Lens of Queer Indigenous Critique
Abstract: This article draws on critiques put forth by Queer Indigenous activists and scholars to question the tendency to include ever more "diverse" groups in the GLBT and Queer coalitions. I begin by introducing three main critiques of non-Native social movement coalitions put forth by Queer Indigenous scholars and then provide examples of Native organizing that shows how coalitions can bring members together across difference. To illustrate how this model of coalition building is different than non-Native coalition building, which tends to absorb and obscure differences, I then turn to a critical discourse analysis of the archived transcripts of a series of meetings called the National Policy Roundtables. The analysis of these meetings reveals how the construction of the GLBT and Queer coalitions, identities, and political agendas precluded the participation of Native people through the erasure of difference, all in the name of coalitional unity. After illustrating the ways that brokering the GLBT and Queer coalitions reified settler logics and the erasure of Native peoples, the article concludes by presenting an example from a contemporary coalition of Native and Black activists for insight into how to rethink coalition politics.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
Language: en
Type: article
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