The scholarly literature on queer hope and futures has overwhelmingly pursued queer and trans subjecthood from a global north perspective, resulting in the ongoing absence and erasure of diasporic queer and trans experiences, hope, and imagination. The over representation of the global north perspectives has foreclosed recognition of the ways in which diasporic queer and trans communities experience and navigate increasing instances of homophobia and transphobia are shaped in congruence with their experiences of xenophobia, racism, islamophobia, and other forms of discrimination within their host countries. It is in addressing such erasures that this project facilitates a more comprehensive recognition of the ways in which Umeed, queer hope and imagination from the global south, runs central to the survival of queer and trans diasporic communities, involving a multiplicity of caring, domestic, emotional, and creative labour. This labour, undertaken by queer and trans newcomer, immigrant, and refugee individuals and communities works towards the survival of queer community, the continuity of queer dreaming, and the possibilities of futures that transcend the borders of their host countries through queer world-making.

This project primarily aims to recognize queer hope, imagination and creativity as crucial and multifaceted contributors to queer futurity discourses and practices.

Queer Hope and Futurities

The project provides a transnational feminist and queer of color critique of queer futurity discourse while also challenging traditional methodologies of research and collaboration. This book project has received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.