anthropology at home: Dancing in the Margins: roles, equality, and the meaning of a “safe space” in same-sex ballroom dancing

This post is first of a series on my ethnography of the culture of ballroom dancing, and also constitutes  a debriefing exercise after my recent weekend of fieldwork at Boston Open DanceSport, the first annual same-sex ballroom competition ever to be held in the Northeast (Boston). I’ve been doing applied research in the DanceSport* world … Continue reading →