ABSTRACT
[abstract: The chapter mobilizes a conversation about queer holistic pedagogies of community development, and addresses how to incorporate these into the graduate classroom. What is a queer holistic imaginary? I argue that a queer holistic imaginary is essential to working with communities negotiating queer diasporic and/or two-spirited lives. Using arts and holistic pedagogies is one way to create queer diasporic spaces within the community, engage relevant social movements, and innovate pedagogies of solidarity building. Creating queer diasporic spaces potentially reclaims the urban from the organizing logic of the global financialized imaginary, characterized as normative, white, and gentrified. ]
