"Sissy that walk”: The queer kinaesthetics of mobility-through-difference

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Queer kinaesthetics; bodies; movement; mobility-through-difference; RuPaul’s drag race; Gender and Sexuality; Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication; Sociology of Culture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3792; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5050/viewcontent/Continuum_SissyWalk_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article advances the idea of ‘queer kinaesthetics’ to show how moving through difference can enable disaggregated individuals to realize a new sense of becoming. Doing so involves rejecting the categories of identity that lead to disaggregation in the first place, and reorienting the self by de...