#Forbidden Colors

[shihlun]

Félix Gonzalez-Torres

- Forbidden Colors

1988

[moratoirenoir]

[scenephile]

It felt pleasant.

[gregdotorg]

Wave a flag for Palestine and Sudan while dancing in the Super Bowl halftime show, get banned from the NFL for life.

update: an interview with Zül-Qarnain Nantambu, the New Orleans artist who took inspiration from Lamar's call for revolution to protest the inhumane treatment of others. “I can’t live in America — live in a lap of luxury — while those are suffering, without trying to help or bring attention to it"

[bookmuseum]

“They spent their youths dreaming of ever new annihilations.”

—Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors (1968)

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mira Lazine at LGBTQ Nation:

The Bulgarian parliament voted to enact a law prohibiting the “propaganda” of “non-traditional” sexual orientation and gender identity in schools last Wednesday. Their vote triggered mass protests and public opposition. The proposed law states, “It is the educational function of the Bulgarian school that such a state institution should not be allowed to promote or incite, in any way, directly or indirectly, ideas and views related to non-traditional sexual orientation and/or identification of gender identity other than that which is biological.” The law, an amendment to the Pre-School and School Education Law, emerged after the 17-member Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science overwhelmingly approved it. The committee’s approval led to a four-hour debate last Wednesday that culminated in the bill passing through parliament. This bill was proposed previously, however, it failed in committee.

Of the 240 parliament members, 159 voted in favor of the first section of the bill, while 22 voted against and 13 abstained. For the section defining “non-traditional sexual orientation,” 135 voted for it, 57 against, and 8 abstained. Members of the more liberal parties were unable to vote for the first section for unknown reasons. The law was especially popular among the increasingly politically dominant pro-Kremlin Revival/Vazrazhdane Party, which was the party to introduce it.

[...] Over 7,000 citizen signatures and nearly 80 non-governmental organizations were sent to the government to plead that Bulgarian President Rumen Radev does not sign this bill. Belgian LGBTQ+ rights organization Forbidden Colors said in a statement, “It is deeply troubling to see Bulgaria adopting tactics from Russia’s anti-human rights playbook. Such actions are not only regressive but are also in direct contradiction to the values of equality and non-discrimination that the European Union stands for.”

A protest was announced the same day in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Since then, there’s been widespread protests throughout the capital and Varna, a port city. There have also been petitions sent to the Bulgarian government asking them to oppose the measure. The bill defines “non-traditional sexual orientation” as “different from the generally accepted and the concept of emotional, romantic, sexual or sensual attraction between persons of opposites.” Bulgarian news site Clubz, as well as Parliament member Eleonora Belobradova claimed that this section of the bill was actually copy/pasted from the Bulgarian Wikipedia. Additionally, the bill only recognizes “biological sex,” completely writing trans people out of the law and ignoring intersex individuals entirely.

Protests erupt over Bulgarian parliament’s passage of Russia-style Don’t Say Gay or Trans law.

[evldavid]

[canisalbus]

✦ Silk and Suede ✦

[litandlifequotes]

Beauty has become a stimulus to garrulity. It has gotten so that on confronting the beautiful one feels duty-bound to say something in a great hurry. It has gotten so we feel we must convert beauty right away. If we don’t convert it, it’s dangerous. Like explosives, beauty has become a difficult thing to own. The power of possessing beauty through silence, this majestic power for which one would lay down his life, has been lost.

Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima

[moratoirenoir]

[gregdotorg]

After censoring a pro-Palestinian performance and forcing the cancellation of capstone exhibitions and symposia by the graduating class, the Whitney Museum's director Scott Rothkopf has suspended its entire Independent Study Program and fired the associated director running it. (The director had already been demoted.)

Over 300 ISP alumni, including some of the most important artists and curators of the last fifty years, have published an open letter of support for the censored artists. We'll have to see what they say about the gutting of the program.

image: ISP alum Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Forbidden Colors", 1988, as installed at MAC Belfast, collection: MOCA

[bookmuseum]

“In short, he wished to be reborn in the world as a corpse.”

—Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors (1968)

[oodlenoodleroodle]

Suggestion for anyone doing a Christmas tree this year: on a green tree, use only red, white and black decorations, to create a tree in the colors of the Palestinian flag.

[blinksalot]

this guy's character arc gets weirder with every ninjago leak

[inkz123]

Day 16: Forbidden (frosting)