“Daddy Pence Come Dance”: Queer(ing) Space in the Suburbs
2020; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 85; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/10570314.2020.1762915
ISSN1745-1027
Autores Tópico(s)Public Spaces through Art
ResumoBefore Mike Pence's inauguration as Vice-President, the LGBTQ activist group Werk for Peace threw a dance protest where over two hundred fiercely fashioned protesters queered Pence's suburban neighborhood. Taking queer as a verb, queering space is a spatial performance, which makes a range of nonnormative enactments, rhythms, movements, and embodiments intelligible by disrupting assumptions that discipline space as binaristic, static, and normative. Outlining three rhetorical performances that queer space, I argue that through dance the Queer Dance Protest queers space by disrupting the heteronormative order, tapping into the space's arena of possibility, and exposing space as open and heterogeneous.
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