Butch Queens up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

Name: Butch Queens up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
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ISBN: 9780472051960

ISBN-10: 0472051962

ISBN-13: 9780472051960

Edition: 2013

Authors: Marlon M. Bailey

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This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the urban phenomenon known as Ballroom culture that first gained notoriety in the documentaryParis Is Burningin 1990.Butch Queens Up in Pumpsuniquely explores the ways in which Black LGBT people in Detroit use performance and other cultural practices—such as alternative identity, kinship, and community formations—to contend with or alter the conditions in which they live.Butch Queens Up in Pumpsis as much an examination of Black queer cultural formations as it is an ethnographic account of Ballroom culture in Detroit. Marlon M. Bailey’s rare perspective as both participant and observer in the Ballroom scene makes for compelling…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English




Introduction: Performing Gender, Creating Kinship, Forging Community



"Ain't Nothing Like a Butch Queen": The Gender System in Ballroom Culture



From Home to House: Ballroom Houses, Platonic Parents, and Overlapping Kinship



"It's Gonna Get Severe Up in Here": Ball Events, Ritualized Performance, and Black Queer Space



"They Want Us Sick": Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS


Epilogue: The Future of Ballroom Culture


Notes


Glossary: Ballroom Community Terms and Phrases


Bibliography


Index