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

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...

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Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-50502023-10-04T05:12:23Z "Sissy that walk”: The queer kinaesthetics of mobility-through-difference WOODS, Orlando 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 developing a distinctly and radically (dis) embodied subject position. I illustrate these ideas by exploring the queer kinaesthetics of drag. Drag is most commonly associated with queer, cisgender males embodying otherness in order to come to terms with the disaggregation that many experience in heteronormative society, and through the heterological norms of representation. By learning how to ‘sissy that walk’ they transcend the cultural codes of social life by embracing a process-oriented ontology that involves moving through difference in search of a more autonomous sense of self-realization. 2023-09-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3792 info:doi/10.1080/10304312.2023.2253384 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5050/viewcontent/Continuum_SissyWalk_sv.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Queer kinaesthetics bodies movement mobility-through-difference RuPaul’s drag race Gender and Sexuality Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Sociology of Culture
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topic Queer kinaesthetics
bodies
movement
mobility-through-difference
RuPaul’s drag race
Gender and Sexuality
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
Sociology of Culture
spellingShingle Queer kinaesthetics
bodies
movement
mobility-through-difference
RuPaul’s drag race
Gender and Sexuality
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
Sociology of Culture
WOODS, Orlando
"Sissy that walk”: The queer kinaesthetics of mobility-through-difference
description 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 developing a distinctly and radically (dis) embodied subject position. I illustrate these ideas by exploring the queer kinaesthetics of drag. Drag is most commonly associated with queer, cisgender males embodying otherness in order to come to terms with the disaggregation that many experience in heteronormative society, and through the heterological norms of representation. By learning how to ‘sissy that walk’ they transcend the cultural codes of social life by embracing a process-oriented ontology that involves moving through difference in search of a more autonomous sense of self-realization.
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title "Sissy that walk”: The queer kinaesthetics of mobility-through-difference
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title_fullStr "Sissy that walk”: The queer kinaesthetics of mobility-through-difference
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2023
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3792
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