Abstract

KLITGARD, Mathias. Family Time Gone Awry: Vogue Houses and Queer Repro-Generationality at the Intersection(s) of Race and Sexuality. Debate fem. [online]. 2019, vol.57, pp.108-133.  Epub Nov 20, 2020. ISSN 2594-066X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cieg.2594066xe.2019.57.07.

The paper at hand interrogates the queer temporal politics of “houses” in the ballroom and voguing scene. Houses constitute the axiomatic unit of this community marked by racial and sexual marginalisation and as such create alternative familial relations between members in response to rejections from the biological family and society in general. Mirroring the traditional family institution, vogue houses not only become a source of protection, care, trust and knowledge; their very structure, I argue, induces a queer reprogenerational time. Countering the sequential heteronormative time of lifetime milestones and agefitting achievements, the queer time of voguing is a temporal disidentification that jumbles around and constructively misappropriates generational and reproductive imperatives. In doing this, the politics of voguing opens the horizon of possible futures: it is a spark of embodied resistance with a queer utopian imaginary.

Keywords : Voguing; Queer Theory; Critical Race Theory; Time Studies; Subcultures.

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