3 ideas
A state that offers a dispossessed people a separate, newly made territory presents it as recognition or generosity. In practice it repeats the original removal, because it detaches the people from specific ancestral country and makes land interchangeable. Sovereignty tied to particular places cannot be satisfied by granting substitute ground.
When an institution hires a member of a marginalised group to manage or smooth relations with another displaced group, it borrows that person's identity to legitimise its project. The liaison's closeness to the managed group makes their complicity visible to them. Divided loyalty then becomes the space where political awakening happens.
Erotic and romantic attraction across a boundary of kind, here human and plant-person, works as a way of recognising shared conditions rather than as an escape from politics. Intimacy with the displaced other breaks down the categories the state relies on to keep dispossessed groups separate. Queer desire becomes the means by which solidarity is discovered.