Undocuqueer: Making Meaning at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Immigration Status

• In Event: Roundtable Session 56
  In Roundtable Session: Exploring Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Ability From a Systems Perspective

Abstract

Employing Queer Intersectionality, this study explored how undocuqueer activists made sense of, interacted and worked within the intersection of their gender, sexuality and immigration status. Participants ascribed three overarching self-meanings: Vulnerability, Complexity, and Resilience. These self-meanings describe the ways participants perceived the interplay of their gender, sexuality and immigration status within the current sociopolitical context of the U.S. This study has implications for further understanding the way that queer politics and identity interact/ relate with various axes of inequality.

Authors

• Jesus Cisneros, University of Central Arkansas

• Alonzo Martice Flowers, Old Dominion University