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Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, through which inner-town LGBT individuals get dressed, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a space, another circle of relatives structure most often named after high fashion designers and providing toughen to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s wealthy first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community.