A call for submissions for a special issue, guest edited by Karyn Recollet (University of Toronto) in conjunction with Eric Ritskes, Editor of Decolonization.

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Call For Submissions: Gender, Sexuality & Decolonization
[December
17,
2014]
Decolonization:
Indigeneity,
Education
&
Society
invites
submissions
from
scholars,
artists,
and
activists
for
a
new
special
issue
of
the
journal
exploring
gender,
sexuality
and
decolonization,
guest
edited
by
Karyn
Recollet
(University
of
Toronto),
in
conjunction
with
Eric
Ritskes,
Editor
of
Decolonization.
This
issue
invites
us
to
consider
both
the
centrality
of
gender
and
sexual
violence
to
colonization,
but
also,
relatedly,
the
centrality
of
gender
and
sexual
justice
to
decolonization.
Too
often
these
issues
have
been
seen
as
peripheral
to
the
larger
struggles
against
colonialism,
too
often
cis-­‐heteropatriarchal
normativity
has
been
justified
in
the
name
of
decolonization.
This
has
to
stop.
To
us,
it
seems
impossible
to
discuss
Indigenous
sovereignty
without
a
discussion
of
body
sovereignty.
It
seems
impossible
to
discuss
environmental
justice
without
connecting
the
violence
against
the
earth
to
the
violences
against
our
bodies,
particularly
the
bodies
of
women,
Two
Spirit,
queer,
transgender
and
others
who
fall
beyond
and
in
resistance
to
the
male
cis-­‐heteropatriarchal
norms
of
colonial
society.
Not
only
do
these
bodies
bear
the
brunt
of
colonial
violence,
they
also
embody,
create
and
sustain
the
theories,
movements,
and
creative
actions
that
resist
it.
Decolonization
is
impossible
without
gender
and
sexual
justice
as
articulated
by
women,
Two
Spirit,
queer,
transgender
and
others
who
fall
beyond
and
in
resistance
to
male
cis-­‐heteropatriarchal
norms.
These
are
the
experiences
and
voices
that
this
issue
seeks
to
center
and
honor
in
seeking
ways
forward
for
decolonization.
As
always,
we
are
interested
in
papers
that
connect
theoretical
discussions
with
active
decolonization
work
by
engaging
the
intersections
of
theory
and
practice.
This
issue
invites
contributors
to
consider
the
following
questions
and
themes
that,
while
far
from
exhaustive,
are
at
the
forefront
of
our
thinking
for
this
issue:
• How
is
colonial
violence
predicated
on
and
enacted
through
cis-­‐heteropatriarchal
gender
norms
and
understandings
of
sexuality?
How
are
these
forms
of
violence
complicated
by
race,
age,
location,
and
space?
As
colonial
violence
is
enacted
on
bodies,
how
is
resistance
and
decolonization
also
embodied?
• What
does
decolonial
love
look
like?
What
is
the
role
of
decolonial
love
in
resistance
and
resurgence?
What
is
the
role
of
hope,
of
envisioning
future
modes
of
relationship
that
both
transcend
and
reconstruct
the
present?
Relatedly,
thinking
of
Audre
Lorde’s
uses
of
the
erotic,
and
the
Native
Youth
Sexual
Health
Network’s
(NYSHN)
use
of
the
term
“Resistance
is
Sexy”,
what
role
does
the
erotic
have
in
resistance?
How
are
decolonial
understandings
of
what
is
sexy
or
erotic
reconstituted
through
resistance
and
struggle?
• How
are
the
experiences
of
Two
Spirit,
transgender,
queer
and
others
who
fall
beyond
and
in
resistance
to
the
male
cis-­‐heteropatriarchal
norms
of
colonial

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society
central
in
engaging
and
generating
a
politics
of
refusal,
particularly
refusal
of
the
settler
colonial
state
and
its
definitional
power?
How,
through
this
refusal,
are
we
generating
spatial
(de/re)orientations
of
decolonial
love,
reconstructing
and
remapping
the
spaces
where
gender
and
sexual
justice
might
happen
outside
and
at
the
margins
of
the
state,
as
part
of
a
trajectory
against
and
beyond
the
state?
• How
do
we
pull
back
or
unlayer
the
colonial
violences
that
hyper-­‐
or
de-­‐sexualize
Indigenous,
Black
and
peoples
of
color,
by
renaming
where
we
find
beauty
in
our
communities
and
our
selves
on
our
own
terms?
• What
are
the
creative
practices
in
which
Indigenous,
Black
and
other
non-­‐White
feminisms
intervene
into
cis-­‐heteropatriarchy,
coloniality,
and
other
related
systems
of
oppression?
What
vocabularies
of
feminism
are
being
(re)imagined
and
(re)generated,
what
practices
being
created,
in
these
communities
to
combat
colonialism
and
create
solidarity
against
colonial
patriarchy
and
white
supremacy
along
the
lines
of
gender
and
sexuality?
• What
are
Indigenous
and
other
traditions
of
gender
and
sexual
justice?
How
has
the
‘traditional’
been
mobilized
in
ways
that
further,
and
are
complicit
in,
colonial
cis-­‐heteropatriarchal
violences?
How
might
tradition
and
traditional
practices
be
re-­‐conceptualized,
re-­‐generated,
or
re-­‐understood
through
gender
and
sexual
justice
paradigms?
• How
are
youth,
as
well
as
other
gender
and
sexual
justice
advocates,
mobilizing
in
new
ways,
utilizing
new
tools,
and
establishing
new
forums
for
decolonizing
practices?
What
generative
critiques
are
being
encoded
into
and
through
these
new
tools;
for
example,
in
and
through
digital
territories?
How
might
intergenerational
dialogues
be
created
to
further
the
decolonization
of
gender
and
sexual
justice?
• Often
anticolonial
violence
has
been
theorized
and
enacted
within
cis-­‐
heteropatriarchal
norms,
enacting
problematic
tropes
of
the
soldier,
the
warrior,
or
the
revolutionary
that
are
rooted
in
gender
violences.
How
have
women,
Two
Spirit,
transgender,
queer
and
others
who
fall
beyond
and
in
resistance
to
cis-­‐
heteropatriarchal
norms
been
silenced
and
marginalized
in
anticolonial
and
decolonization
movements
through
these
tropes?
How
might
decolonization
(and
conceptions
of
anticolonial
violence)
be
reconceptualized
or
reimagined
within
feminist,
queer,
transgender,
Two
Spirit,
or
other
paradigms?
Contributions
are
to
be
submitted
at
www.decolonization.org
no
later
than
March
16,
2015.
This
issue
is
scheduled
for
release
in
Fall
2015.
Articles
should
follow
our
journal
style
guidelines,
which
can
be
found
here.
Scholarly
articles
are
subject
to
a
double-­‐blind
peer
review
and
details
can
be
found
here.
Submitted
contributions
may
also
include
short
non-­‐peer-­‐reviewed
papers
and
commentary,
visual
art,
audio,
video,
poetry
or
interviews.
If
you
have
any
further
questions,
please
don’t
hesitate
to
contact
us
at
editors@decolonization.org