Enacting Spiritual Connection and Performing Deviance
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This chapter examines two distinct although related responses to the devaluation of queer women’s lives: Oakland’s Sistahs Steppin’ in Pride and the New York Dyke March. Each gathering presented a viable paradigm for social interaction that contested heterosexual norms. Participants held space for distinct yet complementary visions of dyke solidarity and in the process created two unique public cultures, one focused on a politics of deviance and the other on a politics of care. Both frameworks contested dominant value systems privileging consumption and abstract moral standards over the well-being of women, lesbians, queer people, and people of color.