ABSTRACT
Queer and trans people of colour struggle to find places of belonging, experiencing difficulties within both wider British society and LGBT and queer communities. However, for most participants QTPOC groups and connections to other queer and trans people of colour engendered a sense of belonging and an affirmation of one’s embodied experience. In this chapter I explore how QTPOC groups and spaces are experienced – as places of affirmation and belonging, joy, and in which to speak back to, resist, and dis-identify from white hegemony. I consider the uses of the erotic and the affirming qualities of ‘feeling together in difference’. Drawing on the discussions of racial melancholia from the previous chapter, I consider the potentialities of feeling queerly raced together – the experiences of ‘apartness together through sharing the status of being a problem’.
