Indigenous Queerness: The Experience and Inclusion of Indigiqueer Individuals in Urban Quebec's Queer Communities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation explores the experiences of queer Indigenous (indigiqueer) individuals living in urban settings in Québec and their inclusion in queer Québécois communities. It examines how settler colonial dynamics impact relations between queer Québécois organizations and indigiqueer individuals. The research is situated at the intersection of queer anthropology and Queer Indigenous Studies (QIS), emphasizing a perspective that focuses on power structures, colonial dynamics, heteronormativity, racism, and sexism through an intersectional lens. Through ethnographic fieldwork including interviews with seven indigiqueer individuals and thirteen queer organizations, three themes emerge as central to Indigenous queerness: indigeneity, queerness, and “in-betweenness”. I also document a persistent feeling of erasure experienced by indigiqueer individuals within queer spaces and organizations despite inclusion efforts by queer organizations. I argue that this erasure is produced by the “Double Colonialism” context in Québec (Indigenous people’s overlapping experiences of the colonizing practices of both Québécois and Canadian states), resulting in a fragmented community service system incapable of addressing intersectional identities of indigiqueer individuals. The research identifies structural barriers that continue to hinder meaningful inclusion, while highlighting some successful decolonial practices employed by certain organizations that establish genuine collaborations with Indigenous communities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".