Take a look inside: exploring closets as fingerprints of the queer community

Krishnakumar, Pooja (Jo) ORCID: 0000-0003-0125-171X (2022) Take a look inside: exploring closets as fingerprints of the queer community. In: Pain, Paromita, (ed.) LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 48 – 65. ISBN 9781032051833

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Abstract

The concept of “coming out” of a “closet” is an idea that has taken precedence in queer public life, personal narratives, and fictive stories as opposed to stories about queer life, joy and “normalcy.” This chapter follows the inception and growth of Almaarii, a digital graphic storytelling project I began to explore my own queerness, or the lack of it within popular culture of “acceptable queerness.” In this essay, I explore the existence of Almaarii as a space that offers comfort, as a space that reveals and conceals, a site of interior exclusion (Urbach, 1996) that shapes the way we experience the digital world as marginalized trans and queer people and perhaps moves toward the resnatching of our spaces for ourselves, away from the celebrations of pride months and rainbow capitalism (Roque & Horacio, 2011).

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	Anthropology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2024 17:57
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2024 00:21
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126284

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