“Bottom” Kinship and LGBTQ+ Youth in Juazeiro da Bahia, Brazil
Walking together. Kinship. LGBTQ+ youth. Queer anthropology.
This ethnography traces the act of walking together in the lives of bottom LGBTQ+ youth from Juazeiro da Bahia, Brazil. More than an activity, walking together can be understood as a native concept that defines privileged relations among friends who become “sisters” by hanging out together. From the perspective of “new kinship” and queer theories, I offer an ethnographic analysis of the specific forms of relatedness that emerge among “sisters” walking together in a small town in Brazil’s hinterland. I coin the term “bottom” kinship to refer to their experiences of relatedness.