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What’s So Civil About Marriage? The Racial Pedagogy of Same-Sex Marriage in Canada

by Suzanne Lenon • 2 May 08
Journal: Issues | Postcolonial Sexuality [3]

In June 2005, the Canadian Parliament passed federal legislation that legally changed the definition of civil marriage to include same-sex couples. The successful passage of Bill C-38 followed various legal victories at provincial levels,[1] and was the culmination of a…


Reading Interrelationality: The Racial Politics of Academic Research

by Damien Riggs • 2 May 08
Journal: Issues | Postcolonial Sexuality [3]

In June 2007, and in the name of Indigenous children, then Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced that he would be moving military troops into the Northern Territory to combat the allegedly high rates of child abuse in remote Indigenous…