1. Outsider Orbits: Disavowal and Dissent in the United States.
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Prasad, Pavithra
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LEGAL status of LGBTQ+ people , *LGBTQ+ Americans , *SOCIAL conditions of immigrants , *IMMIGRANTS , *POLITICAL participation , *DISCOURSE analysis , *SOCIAL justice ,UNITED States citizenship - Abstract
The article offers the author's insights on her experience as a queer South Asian immigrant in the U.S. and how she works as a queer outsider. Topics discussed by the author include the role of queer outsider as an antidote to the dichotomy of citizenship, the participation of an outsider in a politics of disavowal, and how citizen and noncitizen can disrupt the racial, sexual, and political difference in public discourse and reorient public discourse towards justice.
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- 2017
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