‘Creating the community I want to be part of’: Affinity-based organising in a small, progressive rustbelt city

Elizabeth Currans

Urban Studies, 2021, vol. 58, issue 7, 1484-1499

Abstract: This article explores a small city’s response to the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017. Love, Resilience, Action Ypsilanti (LRAY) focused on community-building and the social justice history of Ypsilanti, Michigan to create a queer-affirming feminist event that intentionally referenced and diverged from national Women’s Marches. In exploring intersectional social justice organising by a queer-dominated feminist group, I argue that organisers’ emphasis on communal care in combination with direct action reflected an affinity-based understanding of community characteristic of this particular small progressive rustbelt city. This example demonstrates the importance of including small cities in urban LGBTQ research.

Keywords: affinity-based community; community building; feminism; intersectional activism; queer affirming; small cities; 基于亲密关系的社区; 社区建设; å¥³æ ƒä¸»ä¹‰; äº¤å ‰è¡ŒåŠ¨ä¸»ä¹‰; æ”¯æŒ é…·å„¿; å° åŸŽå¸‚ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098020966258

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