From the Kitchen Table to the Streets: Queer of Colour Reflections on Racial Capitalism

Abstract

I have been thinking about gender, sexuality, race and capitalism in relation to several conjunctures, from the war on terror and the backlash against multiculturalism to neoliberal urban development and, most recently, COVID-19. I have done so in conversation with a promiscuous array of theorists, who situate themselves in a range of formations, from queer of colour and critical ethnic to Black and Indigenous studies, and who work with a range of concepts, from post- and anticolonial takes on biopolitics and necropolitics to racial capitalism (e.g. Combahee River Collective Statement 1983, Coulthard 2014, Ferguson 2004, Haritaworn, Kuntsman & Posocco 2014, Melamed 2015, Pulido 2016, Robinson 1983, Simpson 2013, Thompson 2021). This article revisits some of my projects related to this and concludes in what I propose as a specifically queer engagement with racial capitalism.