We Are Who We Are or Queerness as Atmospheric
摘要
This chapter tracks the relative opacity that surrounds queer identification in the fifth episode of We Are Who We Are (2020), one embodied by Jenny’s remark, “I used to be a lot of things. I don’t know who I am anymore.” Queerness emerges not as an identitarian impulse that leads to a discursive form of transcendence or LGBT visibility, but rather an ambient energy that these teenagers—and at times their parents—surf as they patch together their own way of navigating this strange transnational world that the Chioggia base represents.