Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a transnational consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa. Through ethnographic exploration of queer and trans activist work in both places, Jessica Scott paints a vibrant picture of what life is like in relation to a narrative that says that queer life is harder, if not impossible, in rural areas and on the African continent. The book asks questions like, what do activists in these places care about and how do stories about where they live get in the way of the life they envision for the queer and trans people for whom they advocate? Answers to these questions provide insight that only these activists have, into the complexity of locally based advocacy strategies in a globalized world.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Positionality and Method
Chapter 3: Sites of Struggle
Chapter 4: Welcome to Modernity
Chapter 5: Metronormativity as Alienation
Chapter 6: Queer Organizing in Out of the Way Places
Chapter 7: When Whiteness Gets in the Way
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
