ABSTRACT In 2012, queer Hmong Americans in Minnesota organized to defeat a state-wide ballot initiative that sought to constitutionally amended the definition of marriage in Minnesota to being a union solely between one man and one woman. This article examines a collective called Midwest Solidarity Movement and their strategies of employing a “vernacular activism” to defeat this ballot initiative. I also utilize personal reflections and participant observation conducted during various Midwest Solidarity Movement activities to demonstrate how queer Hmong Americans engaged their own ethnic communities within the political atmosphere of same-sex marriage. This article makes the argument that queer Hmong Americans actively used intersectional and race-conscious strategies to involve their own communities around queer issues, which ultimately helped the cause of the larger movement to legalize same-sex marriage in the United States.

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白话激进主义的政治：苗族美国人在明尼苏达州为社会正义而组织

摘要 2012 年，明尼苏达州的同性恋苗族美国人组织起来击败了一项全州范围的投票倡议，该倡议试图在宪法上将明尼苏达州的婚姻定义修改为仅由一男一女之间的结合。本文考察了一个名为中西部团结运动的集体及其采用“本土激进主义”来击败这一投票倡议的策略。我还利用在各种中西部团结运动活动中进行的个人反思和参与者观察来展示美国苗族同性恋如何在同性婚姻的政治氛围中参与他们自己的种族社区。这篇文章提出了这样的论点，即同性恋苗族美国人积极使用交叉和种族意识的策略来让他们自己的社区围绕酷儿问题参与进来，