Deliberately Queer Journal
Abstract
Employing autoethnography, this reflection explores the contestations of home-place for queer racialized identities. Tony Adams asserts the vitality of such an embodied investigation when speaking about intersectionally assembled marginalized communities and identities through stating, “I turned to writing stories that others could use in times of relational distress […] by doing and living autoethnography” (Jones et al., 2013, p. 21). In this piece, I delve into my lived experiences, chartering conceptions of belonging while integrating personal stories and theoretical discourses. Such an embodiment, as expressed by Ellingson (2017), considers the body as “simultaneously physical and affective, social and individual, produced and producing, reproductive and innovative” (p. 2). Through utilizing such an embodied self, I explore the contestations made by queer racialized individuals in finding home, a place to belong.
Recommended Citation
Subramanian, Viplav Bhaskar
(2025)
"Where Do I Belong? What Should I Call Home?,"
Deliberately Queer Journal: Vol. 1, Article 4.
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https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dqj/vol1/iss1/4
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