Radical Solidarities in Punk and Queer Refusals of Safety and Inclusion Narratives in Planning

Recent call-outs against Ottawa punk venues have fueled public debates about safe space and the inclusivity of local music scenes. The Music Strategy released in 2018 translated these into cultural development policy that links creative placemaking discourse. This article examines civic response to activist by analyzing how integrates diversity inclusion strategies policy, policies intersect with revitalization economic priorities Official Plan. Punk counter-narratives developed through grounded ethnographic research scene unsettle normative safety narratives frame spaces as unsafe. Place-based histories anti-oppression tactics, logics, traditions activism contextualize alternative responses promoters. Drawing upon literature queer planning geography on intersections between radical politics, spatialities, identities, this discusses punking solidarity queering community-based issues safety, inclusion, participation.