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“furnishing the prison house” theorizes a Third-Worldist, trans of color critique of the nuclear family under imperial capitalism. When deracination is already a given for racialized subjects in the so-called US, how could we afford to disavow our sites of origin, as violent as they may be? With the help of Golden’s “A Dead Name That Learned How to Live,” Chella Man’s “Is It Worth It?”, and Mama Ganuush’s Palestinian-futurist drag, this thesis articulates a politics of familial disidentification: to hold onto the family, to work on and against them, to recycle them to queerly reproduce new life. Trans of color performance reveals families of origin as not merely a hiding place where people gather to cope with the unlivable present—as the Amerikan “queer community” claims to be. Family is a tactic of counter-warfare, a time portal dredging up histories of trauma, merging strategies of refusal and resistance to practice liberation. Right now.

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