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Migrating Like a Queen: Visuality and Performance in the Trans Gay Caravan
- WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
- The Feminist Press
- Volume 47, Numbers 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2019
- pp. 99-118
- 10.1353/wsq.2019.0063
- Article
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Abstract:
Focusing on the 2017 Trans Gay Caravan as a form of performative political intervention, this paper proposes the concept “migrating like a queen” to shed light on how trans women and gay men forge fierce relationalities to survive the gendered and sexual violence of migration. I argue that “migrating like a queen” is a visual and performative strategy that utilizes spectacular femininities as a common ground between trans, gay, Central American, and Mexican migrants.