Queer Heartache Film Analysis

Issues of discrimination to transgender also occur outside of detention centers. Kit Yan shared the social injustices he experienced as a queer, transgender, and Asian American in his performance Queer Heartache. He became aware of the unacceptance of transgenders in the US when he expressed his newfound queer identity through rainbow stickers on his new Jeep Cherokee. As a result, his lights were smashes and tires were broken. Like transgender detainees, Yan was out casted and assigned to a secluded dorm on college campus. Similarly to how detainees are told to silence when assaulted and rape, Yan was recommended that for his own safety he should remove the stickers which expressed his pride and identity. The treatment of both Yan and transgender detainees illustrates the degree of unacceptance the transgender community has received in the US society.
The conditions that some immigrants endure while in the US are unimaginable and should be challenged. The work of Not1More is especially inspiring because they do not limit activism to protest or strikes but embrace the power of art to motivate others. History has demonstrated that the US is built on diversity and therefore many of our ancestors who could have endured the unlivable conditions that individuals in the detention centers currently face. As Maria Marroquin states in a poem,”…skin color is merely an accident, and what really matters is invisible.” Foley has examined that white skin does not guarantee property rights to whiteness nor does being Caucasian and until there is no clear indicators to what classifies an individual as White the non-Whites will experience prejudice, discrimination, and