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Queer Migration Documents As Technologies Of Affect, By Melissa Autumn White

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What does being queer mean? To many people it might still be known to be an offensive word to the LGBTQIA community but in reality the LGBTQIA community has actually flipped the meaning of the term “queer” to a meaning of pride. However, to many queers, the word “queer” doesn’t just mean being proud of who you are but also a way of identity and an umbrella term, being militant. For others, it can mean an act, a sexual act and what I’m really going to emphasize in this essay is the ideology/politics in the term “queer.” Throughout my understanding of the term “queer” authors that I’m going to be presenting engage with ideas of "queerness" to make surprising or novel claims also what is my understanding of the term "queer" and how it changed …show more content…

For example, in the beginning of the article “Archives of Intimacy and Trauma: Queer Migration Documents as Technologies of Affect” by Melissa Autumn White, she talks about how a migrant from Ukraine was denied an appeal for permanent residency in Canada after she got married due to her sexual orientation. They simply denied her status because of what she identify as and had problems back home due to the same issue, so where can she go to feel accepted, if countries haven’t recognized same-sex marriage as a potential actual family. Melissa Autumn White often calls this archives of intimacy and trauma, the refugee trauma of how the LGBTQIA community has to go through, “wherein intimacy is established through a conformity with conventional, white/whitened representations of “marriage-like likeness,” queer asylum archives rely upon a hypervisibility of racialized and traumatized queerness in their aspiration for state protection.” (Autumn White, 81). In order to seek asylum, a person has to go some kind of trauma back in their country of origin and go through testimonies and so many migrant queers are afraid to say they are queer for many reasons like Melissa Autumn White states “many LGBTQ refugee claimants don’t initially mention their sexual orientation or gender identity given concerns about safety, fear of deportation, histories of abuse at the hands of authority” (Autumn White, 83). It’s even harder for trans refugees since their paperwork it’s really different and may go by different name so overall it’s a difficult process for queers and not only it’s traumatic to come from a country where you’re not fully accepted and then coming to a country where you are scared to show that you’re

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