Unsettling Black, Indigenous and Queer Latinx Senses of Place and Radically Remapping Latinx Geographies of Belonging in the City

This article examines the radical possibilities of Latinx senses of place and geographies. I do this by deeply engaging with the film series, Will You Listen? by Kichwa artist Samay Arcentales Cajas, which explores Latinx people’s experiences and relationships to place in Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada). Weaving an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and geographic framework and methodology, I demonstrate how Black/Afro-Latina, Indigenous, and racialized queer and nonbinary Latinx people featured voice distinct unsettling Latinx senses of place. I offer unsettling Latinx senses of place as a concept that speaks to how Latinx people understand, navigate, and make place through an embodied anticolonial feminist praxis, which challenges how intersecting relations of conquest and power shape their everyday lives and the spaces they inhabit. Unsettling Latinx senses of place engender refusals of normative claims to space and belonging in relation to the city, the nation-state, and hegemonic Latinidad, while also illustrating new ways of belonging grounded in relationships of care, reciprocity, and solidarity. Overall, I aim to enrich understandings of Latinx senses of place and contribute to the growing field of Latinx geographies in a way that works toward more just and liberatory geographies within and beyond the discipline.