Take a Look Inside: Exploring Closets as Fingerprints of the Queer Community

Main author: Krishnakumar, Jo
Format: Book Chapters           
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language English
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
description 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).
author_additional Pain, Paromita
author_additionalStr Pain, Paromita
format Book Chapters
author Krishnakumar, Jo
author_facet Krishnakumar, Jo
authorStr Krishnakumar, Jo
author_letter Krishnakumar, Jo
title Take a Look Inside: Exploring Closets as Fingerprints of the Queer Community
publisher Routledge
publishDate 2022
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/35430/