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  • Chapter 14 - Diaspora, Displacement, and Belonging

  • from Part IV - Key Words
  • Edited by Siobhan B. Somerville, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
    Published online:
    02 June 2020
    Print publication:
    11 June 2020, pp 215-227

  • Summary

    Through an examination of Henrique Cirne-Lima and Josué Pellot’s 2010 documentary film I Am the Queen about transgender Puerto Rican beauty queen pageants in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, this chapter discusses how queer diasporic communities in the US navigate family and kinship in light of racial, sexual, and gender difference. Underscoring the importance of decentering conventional notions of kinship while remaining attuned to the way “given” families may in fact link up to “selected” families for purposes of communal sustenance and endurance, the chapter highlights the film’s aim to represent alternative formations of family and kinship as they relate to diaspora and displacement. Ultimately, Cirne-Lima and Pellot’s film offers a vision of the struggle to belong in the context of the loving competition of the beauty pageant while also accounting for the struggles of historically marginalized and maligned communities such as the transgender Puerto Rican women the documentary represents.