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Much of the scholarship of the House Ballroom Scene focuses on the Balls, categories, genders, and Houses—with Mothers being at the forefront of leadership for the Ballscene culture. This chapter departs from that trend and moves to illuminate the roles that Fathers play in the Ballscene. Pulling from Paris is Burning, and through indigenous decolonial praxis, this essay in the form of a letter to a son weaves together personal experiences of this Black, Latinx, Indigenous LGBTQ+ sub-culture, in order to make sense of the meanings and responsibilities of Fatherhood. Tender considerations of what raises one’s masculinity, walking through Mexika ceremony, and evaluation of roles in a walking House builds this essay and story of the werk and call to Fatherhood a House brings.
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The notion of intersectionality presents problems of its own. See Sandra K. Soto, Reading Chican @ Like a Queer (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010). I thank A.R. Del Castillo for bringing this to my attention.
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Peranda, C. (2021). Overall Prince, Now Father Lauren: On Becoming a Two-Spirit Butch Queen Father. In: Del Castillo, A.R., Güido, G. (eds) Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60877-4_6
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