Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies.
Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community.
Marlon M.
Bailey's rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community.
About the Author: Marlon M.
Bailey is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.
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University Of Michigan Press Butch queens up in pumps: gender, performance, and ballroom culture in detroit, paperback/marlon m. bailey
