| ID | 191707 |
| Title Proper | Spilling the Tea |
| Other Title Information | Aunty Discipline and the Queer Diasporic Child in D’Lo’s To T, or Not To T? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Tillakaratne, Mihiri |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines To T, or Not To T?, a solo play by D’Lo, a queer transmasculine Sri Lankan Tamil American performance artist and comedian. Considering the Super Aunty character, I examine how aunties orient diasporic life towards multiple modes of belonging and exclusion. Specifically, I explore how Aunty Discipline directed toward the queer diasporic child is vital in creating future hetero-reproductive diasporic subjects, then consider the intimacies of fictive kinship through the term ‘fam’. The queer diasporic body is a text on which others enact diasporic meanings, but D’Lo uses that very queer body to actively reimagine and re-image family and community, thereby infusing these spaces with his own queer ontologies and epistemologies. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 46, No.1; Feb 2023: p.152-169 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol: 46 No 1 |
| Key Words | Queer Diaspora ; Aunties ; Diasporic Child ; Embodied Performance ; Transmasculinity |