This dissertation is a performance ethnography that chronicles the experiences of Black and Latinx transgender women in the ballroom scenes of Chicago, Illinois and London, England. The dissertation engages 65 Black and Latinx transwomen and offers a theory of embodied knowledge—that is, the harnessing of lived experiences of racial, gender, sexual and class subjugation which are transformed in strategies, tactics and tools by which interlocutors acquire the human and material resources necessary to survive in a world hellbent on their annihilation. The dissertation delineates critical cultural contributions to the ballroom scene made by Black and Latinx transwomen, investigates transwomen’s relationship to healthcare, complicates conceptions of “realness” and theorizes about sex work as a form of employment.

Creator

• Glover, Julian Kevon

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-kmqr-2409

Subject

• Gender studies

Language

• en

Alternate Identifier

• http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15218
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Date created

• 2020-01-01

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright