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oapen-20.500.12657-759312024-03-28T09:40:28Z Queer and Trans People of Colour in the UK Davis, Stephanie Queer, trans, transgender, Race, Black feminist, Black Queer, QTPOC, People of Colour, LGBTQ This book explores the meanings of Queer and Trans People of Colour (QTPOC) activist groups in the UK, considering the tensions around inclusion and belonging across lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) and of colour communities and wider British society. Davis draws de-/anti-/post-colonial, Black feminist, and queer theory into critical psychology to publish the first book of its kind in the UK, developing an intersectional understanding of QTPOC subjectivities and identities. The book examines questions of belonging; racial melancholia; decolonising gender and sexualities; and the joys, erotics, and the difficulties of building and finding QTPOC community that can hold and celebrate our intersectional richness. Offering a radical and critical intervention into psychology, this volume will be of key interest to scholars in Gender Studies and Queer Studies, Psychology and Race, together with activists, community organisers, counsellors, and the third sector. 2023-08-31T08:40:53Z 2023-08-31T08:40:53Z 2023 book ONIX_20230831_9780429794810_8 9780429794810 9781138345775 9781138345768 9780429437694 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75931 eng Transforming LGBTQ Lives application/pdf n/a 9780429794810.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429437694 10.4324/9780429437694 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780429794810 9781138345775 9781138345768 9780429437694 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge 148 [...] Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This book explores the meanings of Queer and Trans People of Colour (QTPOC) activist groups in the UK, considering the tensions around inclusion and belonging across lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) and of colour communities and wider British society. Davis draws de-/anti-/post-colonial, Black feminist, and queer theory into critical psychology to publish the first book of its kind in the UK, developing an intersectional understanding of QTPOC subjectivities and identities. The book examines questions of belonging; racial melancholia; decolonising gender and sexualities; and the joys, erotics, and the difficulties of building and finding QTPOC community that can hold and celebrate our intersectional richness. Offering a radical and critical intervention into psychology, this volume will be of key interest to scholars in Gender Studies and Queer Studies, Psychology and Race, together with activists, community organisers, counsellors, and the third sector.
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