Vol. 23 No. 2 (2024): Queering the Tropics, Part 2. Queering Tropically: Sexuality, Indigeneity, Decoloniality, Spatiality

Special Issue Editors: Christian Benitez, Luke Chwala, & Anita Lundberg

Queering the Tropics Part 2 explores the notion of “Queering Tropically,” which alludes to queering through tropes as well as through tropical materiality. This issue asserts that the tropics has always been a space where queerness lives, not a place where queerness has arrived post colonialism. This assertion is evident in the issue's discussions of Sexuality, Queer Indigeneity, and Decoloniality. Furthermore, Queering the Tropics is inherently Spatial. The Tropics, as the other of the temperate zone, has been subjected to waves of colonialisms and their patriarchal and heteronormative power structures. The tropics, as a heterotopic space, subverts and inverts these temperate structures—it queers them. The tropics offers myriad ways of queer being and becoming.