ABSTRACT
In this chapter I consider the aims, background, and the disciplinary and methodological interventions, disruptions, and innovations that have informed the research. I then consider the four chapters on the findings, and what they mean for QTPOC belonging, building community, decolonising gender and sexuality, and the reparative and transformative possibilities for addressing conflict and harm in QTPOC communities. QTPOC groups make space for understanding the experience of being ‘queerly raced’, the racially melancholic experience of non-belonging in the UK, and the potentialities for ‘feeling together in difference’. I suggest the joy and eroticism of collectivism and feeling together in difference can be further drawn on to develop reparative and generative ways of managing conflict and harm in communities. I discuss participants’ experience of decolonising gender and sexuality and the development of a decolonising queer politic motivated by deep commitment and decolonial love for one another and their communities. I suggest QTPOC groups are spaces for possibilities for reclaiming our intersectional richness. These are spaces in which fragmented understandings of subjectivity; race, gender, sexuality; historical, social, and political contexts; and modernity/coloniality are challenged. These provide possibilities for understanding the richness of intersectionality and refuse pallid, universal, ahistorical, and colonial constructions of human experience and subjectivities. This opens potentialities for new forms of subjectivities and the freedom of understanding subjectivity and being as ‘always on the way’.
