Epilogue: Caressing in Small Spaces

The eleven chapters in this book explore what it might look like to make space and take space beyond the enclosures brought here with European settlement. As Moten (2017) makes clear, this settler-colonial logic of enclosure pervades everything: from the university and the nonprofit – reserved for the reproduction of bourgeois subjects destined to rescue and control Black, brown, and working-class populations – to the carceral, neo-liberal city – territorialized on land that is cyclically cleansed, flipped, fenced off, objectified, and “regenerated” for the productive and consumptive use of the properly alive. The contributors to Queering Urban Justice approach the urban along with