CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Hulikova, Klara |
|---|---|
| Title | A Study of Triangulated Non-Belonging: Speaking up in the World We Were Never Meant to Survive in |
| Summary | In intersectional feminist philosophy, many have criticized theorizing which ignores one experience connected to a multi-minority identity over another. No one has, however, attempted to conceptualize the phenomenological experience of living and belonging in the world as a double-minority identity person. A double-minority identity person is someone, whose identity is constituted by being part of two minority groups at the same time. In this work, I will focus specifically on queer People of Color (POC). I set out to conceptualize how it is to (not) belong in a world that has not been designed for your needs as a queer Person of Color. I argue that the experience of a queer POC is unique as they experience non-belonging alongside three axes. First, they do not belong as a queer POC in the heteronormative majority culture and society, second, they do not belong as non-white to the homonormative queer community and third, they do not belong culturally as a queer person to their ethnic community. Such a rejection results in either having to deny parts of their identity whichever community they enter, or in constant living-in-opposition-to. In the final chapter, I have examined possible solutions to such non-belonging that are creative instead of negative or suppressive. I argue that this is a distinct mode of being in the world that influences the queer POC’s psyche and the ways in which they are capable of interacting with any community. When treated as non- belonging everywhere they go, the queer POC’s identity is fragmented and they are left feeling isolated from all communities while prevented from seeing themselves as a whole. This can cause the queer POC to be unable to relate to the communities they live in and cause them to struggle with having a relationship with themselves as a person that is whole. |
| Supervisor | Renkin, Hadley Zaun |
| Department | Undergraduate Studies BA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/hulikova_klara.pdf |
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