Ugly DifferencesWhat would it mean to turn to ugliness rather than turn away from it? Indeed, the idea of ugly often becomes synonymous with non white, non male, and non heterosexual physicality and experience. That same pejorative migrates to become a label for practices within underground culture. In Ugly Differences, Yetta Howard uses underground contexts to theorize queer difference by locating ugliness at the intersection of the physical, experiential, and