On “Gaymousness” and “Calling Out”: Affect, Violence, and Humanity in Queer of Colour Politics

I distinctly remember the first time I fell onto the wrong side of politics. It was the summer of 2008, and I had moved out of my parents’ house in the suburbs to a place in the west end of downtown Toronto. I would later learn that this house had a reputation for being a hub of queer of colour radicalism. In speaking to politically active queer and trans folks of colour about where I lived, they would knowingly shake their heads with a smile and say something like, “Oh! You live in that house!” That afternoon, I was riding