#queerstudies

[blackwomanvibes]

🌻 How To Live Your Best Ace Life! 🌻♠|The Girlies are BREAKING social norms & gender roles| Ep19

https://youtu.be/1PKmhq87U2k?feature=shared We are discussing the gender expressions, gender roles, and social markers of QUEER Gen Z and young Millennial women. The girlies are QUEER and aren't living for the male gaze. The girlies are prioritizing their humanity for their authentic expression. From body hair, pixie cuts, nonconformity, LGBTQIA+ acceptance and rejecting cishet normative social scripts. 

This includes partnering (amatonormativity), child labor aka procreating (compulsory sexuality), and the 4B movement (refusing allosexuality/gender roles/cishet patriarchy as the default). Let's discuss why the girlies are queer and how queerness opposes hierarchal caste systems such as pickme politics/trade wife indoctrination/soft life aesthetics/hypergamy power plays etc. Full link to this video in the bio! Subscribe to BlackWomanVibes on YouTube!

[rejectedreligion1]

Spotlight Brennan Kettelle & Morbid Anatomy Course: 'The Demoness Lilith' PhD researcher Brennan Kettelle joins me to give a sneak peek of her upcoming 8-week online course, 'The Demoness Lilith: From Wind Spirit to (First) Woman, Her Origins and Cultural Receptions" in collaboration with Morbid Anatomy, that starts February 25, 2023. Brennan begins by giving a brief overview of the course, and then talks a bit more in detail about the themes of particular weeks (5-7). If you're curious about the figure of Lilith, this course is for you!

[onallmybaldwinbooks]

Sergio Loo: el poeta y novelista gay de México - Homosensual

[pesigan]

Advising thesis writing students. Good luck in your research. #QueerStudies https://www.instagram.com/p/CoZUD0-ysn-eVEhX_oR0aZShwag9HW3of_MIi40/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[enresamedtove]

Queerhet i Toves liv och författarskap

Trots att Tove Janssons verk kryllar av queera underströmmar är forskningen kring dem förvånansvärt ung. Janssons författarskap är fullt av motstridigheter och normöverskridande, ett exempel är hemuler med maskulina pronomen som bär klänning och Too-ticki som utstrålar en butchig kvinnlighet.

Mia Österlund kommenterar Mumindalens queera natur i sin artikel “Queera underströmmar i Tove Janssons poetik. Från Mumindalen till den Ärliga Bedragaren” (2016) :

Muminfamiljens inkluderande vänlighet och godmodighet har därmed närmast fungerat som en osynlighetsmantel för de queera underströmmar som jag hävdar att är genomgående i Janssons hela konstnärskap. Det genusgrubblande finns där, mitt framför ögonen på läsaren. I Mumindalen strövar hemuler fridsamt fram i klänning.

Jag fascineras av hur Muminfamiljens kärnmodell samtidigt representerar en vald familj, något som förekommer ofta i queera sammanhang. Boel Westin menar att barnboken är en ambivalent text som kan ingå i och motsäga flera olika litterära normsystem samtidigt. Sättet kön och genus framställs i Mumindalen är elektriskt mångsidigt.

Det finns ett flertal olika maskuliniteter representerade i Mumindalen. Muminpappan utgör en starkt närvarande mansfigur, vilket hörs redan på hans namn. I Magnus Öhrns essä ”Vem drar i muminpappans svans? – Om manliga fantombilder och homosocialitet i Mumindalen” diskuteras pappan utifrån R.W. Cornells teorier om hegemonisk maskulinitet. Muminpappan representerar en traditionell familjepatriark med en något utdaterad roll inom familjedynamiken. Dock är det inte den enda formen av maskulinitet som uttrycks i dalen.

Too-ticki har beskrivits som ”butchig” av flera forskare. Too-tickis könsidentitet markeras bland annat av användningen av pronomenet hon, men hennes personlighet och visuella framtoning betecknas av stereotypt maskulina drag. Precis som Toves livskamrat så är Too-ticki händig, klär sig maskulint och trivs med att fiska vid havet. Muminpappan och Too-ticki är två exempel på olika maskuliniteter, varvid Too-tickis genusuttryck representerar en normrubbning i kontrast till pappans patriarkala maskulinitet.  

Normsprickor existerar överallt i Tove Janssons skapelser. Maskulinitet och feminitet finns i dalen mer som ett flytande ting än något normstyrt och indelande. Queerstudier av Tove Janssons verk är spännande och rikt med potential. 

[queermediastudies]

Hi I'm Maya (she/her). My major is international studies but I'm interested in all the social sciences and have too many minors at this point. Queer media studies interests me as a queer person myself and I hope to learn more about the academia behind intersectionality and media. I'm kind of chronically online although I've never used Tumblr before (I've just seen Tumblr posts reposted on other sites). In my free time I like to consume media like TV shows and movies (recently I watched Queen (2022) on Netflix and Our Flag Means Death on Hbomax). I also play Nintendo games on my Switch (mostly Splatoon, Kirby and Animal Crossing). Otherwise I enjoy traveling, reading, and casually taking photos!

[descalibrary]

Mohon bantuan rekan-rekan untuk memilih sampul yang paling cucok ya Love, Queer Etc. ________ English: "Queer etc." is a collection of personal essays that explore what 'queer' and 'queerness' means in Indonesia. This volume brings the personal experience of 17 (seventeen) authors coming from diverse backgrounds, including transman, transwoman, heterosexual ally, gay, bisexual, non-binary, people with disability, people living with HIV, Indonesian-Chinese minority, religious group, rural community, grassroots activist, and 'animal/non-human being'. As one of the editors, I see and feel how every author explores queerness in their distinctive way, expanding what 'queer' means beyond just an identity marker and showing their agency and power in living their queer lives. Featuring: senior gay activist, Dede Oetomo; winner of Jakarta's Arts Council's novel-writing contest, Minanto; CONQ web-series actor, Rizal Iwan; queer-feminist religious group, Kolektif As-Salam; book reviewer, Desca Ang, a gay comic creator, Amahl S. Azwar, psychologist and writer Diana Mayorita, and many more.... Coming Soon in June 2021. ______ Bahasa Indonesia: “Queer etc.” adalah sebuah kumpulan esai personal yang menjelajahi makna ‘queer’ dan ‘queerness’ dalam konteks Indonesia. Buku ini mengangkat pengalaman pribadi dari 17 (tujuh belas) penulis dengan beragam latar belakang, meliputi transpria, transpuan, sekutu heteroseksual, gay, biseksual, non-biner, orang dengan disabilitas, orang yang hidup dengan HIV, minoritas Indonesia-Tionghoa, kelompok keagamaan, masyarakat pedesaan, aktivis akar rumput, dan ‘hewan/non-manusia’. Sebagai salah satu editornya, saya melihat dan merasakan bagaimana setiap penulis menjelajahi queerness dengan cara mereka masing-masing, memperluas pemaknaan queer melampaui kotak-kotak identitas dan memperlihatkan agensi dan kekuataan mereka dalam hidupnya. #queerindonesia #queeretc #lgbt #lgbtindonesia #trans #queerstudies #queertheory #indonesia #lgbtq🌈 #books #eabooks #penulisindonesia #indonesianqueerstudies #lgbtindonesia #seriqueer #gender #seksualitas Reposted from @hendryulius (at Desca's Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQlPUXyLXjR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[idigitpodcast]

Happy Pride from I Dig It!!! Today we’re highlighting some of our LGBTQIA+ community members and a couple brilliant scholars who helped shaped the realm of queer anthropology! 🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️🧡💛💚💙 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🎉#pridemonth #pride #archaeology #archaeologist #anthropology #anthropologist #womeninanthropology #queeranthropology #queerstudies #idigit #podcastersofinstagram #podcasts #archaeologypodcastnetwork #education #archaeologylife #peopleinanthropology #rainbow #alphabetmafia https://www.instagram.com/p/CQESqdvrfEO/?utm_medium=tumblr

[roshomon-jo]

Pure as Love: Bhima Jewellery’s ad tracing the journey of a Transgender

Here we have the 96 years old established jewellery brand to welcome a special campaign to champion lgbtq rights. But let’s see whether the advertisement is introducing meaningful dialogues on the transgender rights. Giving a quick glance to the concept of the ad in a nutshell we can see a brooding boy transforming into a young confident woman with her family’s support. The vibrant backdrop of Kerala, god’s own country gives an added charm to each and every frame. Unlike from the fair and happy hetero women featuring, it throws opportunities to the possibility of portrayals like these. The primary goal of every ad is to gain better reach and to attract customers. We can even argue on the strategy of marketing the brand adopts to compete in a field like this. In addition, the utopian component in the commercial is that it shows a family accepting their kid which will encourage the public to consider something about this issue.

The change is brought alive by the interaction with jewellery with a pair of anklets that her father gifts to the traditional wedding jewellery that she wears as a South Indian bride. Titled 'Pure As Love,' audiences throughout India have appreciated the commercial. Throughout the advertisement, the protagonist's love support is fully demonstrated by her family and there are no scenes where she is picturized as a victim. Let’s hope that this wipes away the norms of beauty and normalcy of every common person. 

[beblk]

Congratulations to neckbone. 1 of 5 (shortlisted) for the Chicago Review of Books in Poetry

https://chireviewofbooks.com/2019/10/14/the-poetry-shortlist-for-the-2019-chicago-review-of-books-award/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[onallmybaldwinbooks]

[carrie123-qs304-blog]

One of my favorite things to watch is the web series “UNHhhh.”  It features two notable Rupaul’s Drag Race Alumni: Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova.  It is super campy in it’s comically erratic editing, two drag queen hosts, and its take on the traditional talk show format.  Over the seasons, UNHhhh has become meta and self-referential in how the hosts start quoting themselves in past episodes, and its growing and loyal fan base that keeps this show going.  The hosts themselves have had quite a camp drag career.  Trixie Mattel is known for being heavily inspired by vintage Barbie dolls, and cites that as her makeup inspiration.  This is something Mattel used to be criticized for and often polarized audiences, but since she’s fully embraced the “Kabuki Polly Pocket” look, she’s made it iconic, and been able to create a makeup brand around her aesthetic.  Katya, on the otherhand, is known for her offbeat dark humor, inspirations ranging from “Twin Peaks” to strong, complex women like Jodie Foster in the film “Contact”.  She’s been open about her struggles with mental illness and drug addiction, often using humor and frankness to share with audiences issues that a number of LGBTQ+ folks also face.  Trixie and Katya often times also talk about their experiences growing up gay, facing the stigma, navigating online dating, and how they’ve come to be the lovely queer performers they are today.  This dynamic duo are able to provide mainstream audiences and younger queer generations with the weekly camp, humor, and representation they need in their lives.

[sassafraslowrey]

Final semester!!!! spread out all my school binders on the kitchen table to work on my MFA annotated bibliography! #gradstudent #mfa #lowresidencymfa #queerstudies #fairytales https://www.instagram.com/p/B17GqHbgQdc/?igshid=gbtfnc9duvs5

[pesigan]

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 #QueerStudies #pride (at National Museum of Fine Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce5TSYTrwIhF1RDotMwAlUYU7NqrqAhsGcWMKE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[coloringtheworldwithwords]

12/22/17

Today was my first day back home since I’ve fully accepted myself as a trans man. I went out looking like this and felt happy and content.  As I strolled into the most populated grocery store in town, I found myself not caring what anybody though. For the first time ever, I didn’t care what people thought because  I was confident enough in myself. I’ve never been so at peace with myself. I even noticed a little boy starring at me as I was browsing for beer and turned and smiled at him. As a lesbian, not to terms with my gender, I would have been bitter and uncomfortable. But now I see it as an opportunity to teach.  I am a trans man thriving and succeeding in society. I exist. I look and feel masculine and live my life in a very masculine way. I am attracted to females and I walk like a man. Everything about me is manly.  But for the first time ever, I saw it as this little boy looking at me as a trans man. This little boy processing me having a normal life as a trans guy. And me living the life I do, as confidently as I can. And it inspires me that I am at that point. I no longer thought about people looking at me as a dyke. I now perceive people as judging me as a trans man, and that is a huge mental step that I’ve taken that has grown my confidence tremendously.  Smiling at this little boy made me hopeful. You can never tell what people are thinking but me possibly being part of a question or even a lesson, inspires me to be who I am forever and unapologetically.  I want people to know that trans is possible, trans is normal, trans is beautiful and trans is okay...because I never knew that until the ripe age of 24.  I think there is tremendous beauty in being yourself and there is a lot to realize about perception. It’s crazy what confidence can do to change your mind about things.  I am the most confident I’ve been and know I will only grow with confidence as I take testosterone and continue to become the man I was always meant to be. I am so happy to lead the life I life. I couldn’t ask for anything better

[queermediastudies]

QUEER TV

Before I watched POSE, I thought it might be a fashion show about how models express themselves. POSE is a queer television related to fashion but not as similar as what we saw in a commonplace. It is not about a great fashion design with a famous luxury designer, the roles in POSE are all designers to themselves because they designed and made the costumes. 

The first queer media I watched was called Brokeback Mountain, which did not leave me with a deep impression but misconception of gay people that I do not understand why the two leading male characters fell in love but marry with other women. I have never considered what kind of humiliation or discrimination they would meet if they came out. I was ignorant before I reached out to POSE, a television that focuses on minority people within the marginalized group. It is a television that no longer focuses on white gay people but on black trans people. This brought out the breakout text in both queer media and the natural world since the world is still arguing about the problems of trans people, such as whether trans people should use the women's restroom. 

According to what we have learned before, the LGBT group is a marginalized group because the whole world system is still or mainly focuses on heteronormativity. To love or have a relationship with the same sex people is violated the binary rule, human morals, and reproductive futurism. And it is perceived as demonic behavior by Catholicism. 

POSE is the first queer TV that changed my perspectives on gay people. Although this TV has been controversial, it uses three seasons to sketch the queer history in New York City, starting from 1980 entirely. For me, POSE is not just a queer TV but a 'documentary' TV because the play is in chronological order, which shows the historical moments from queer history. Moreover, according to Joyrich(2014), TV is still at the top of mainstream US media institutions, and it has a function of influencing people's perceptions by bringing out intensely political history. TV is a thing that is ordinary, mundane, and unremarkable or a concept that illustrates a fixed type of framing in media. Queer is unusual in adjective and ruins things in verb meaning. Queer TV can be seen as a "breakout text" (Cavalcante, 2017, p.1) that appeared in ordinary television. This breakout is like a sudden rise of layer after layer of huge waves across the calm sea. Therefore, POSE is also a cultural breakout text to me.

"Queer is defined precisely as the subversion of the ordinary" (Joyrich,2014,p.134). Queer TV studies focus on how queer TV reflects, refracts, and generates the dominant ideology, firmly challenging and troubling the normative ideology, thus providing a powerful venue for cultural and political resistance. According to Tongson(2017), queer media has its function of examining queer history by portraying LGBTQ civil rights events. Each era's cultural, political, and LGBT activities affect queer media creations. Queer media from various eras mirrored queer society. Queer media helps people understand the challenges and limits queer people faced before. The content of how trans people defend against HIV disease and why they get infected in this TV series brought me a type of cultural shock corresponding to the breakout text function. In season2, episode2, they went to the church and started their protest to ask, "stop killing us." The director uses a close-up shot to show the cardinal's crime through the leaflet. As we can see from the picture, it pointed out what the cardinal did at that time. 

The scenes played in the show used a narrative way to show how ACT UP and our main characters participated in the protest, which is similar to what happened in the actual ACT UP protest during that time. I appreciate the documentary film United in Anger which precisely explained this scene because I did not understand why they started the protest in the church when I watched the scene. But after we read and learned from our class, I re-watch the TV and finally connected some confusing points to actual history.

Another scene in the POSE that left me with a profound impression is that they spread the ashes. This scene is based on the actual hisotry, which is also recorded in the United in Anger. After Pray dead, his friends united together and joined the activity made by ACT UP— spread the ashes onto the White House lawn. Ashes are meaningful and more direct in showing how many people died from AIDS. It was more efficient in getting people to become angry and remember how this disease took their friends, families, and people they knew. This scene revealed how people with AIDS or without AIDS were angry and disappointed when the government was not fully responding to act to these dead people.

Do you remember a scene where the presenter asked trans people horrible questions about their biological body system in the last documentary film called Disclosure? Have you ever thought about why those people ask these awful questions to trans people? This is also driven by Cavalcante, "particularly on television talk shows, transgender people are routinely asked to reveal intimate details about their bodies, questions other guest never receive" (Cavalcante, 2017, p.9).

POSE has reflected the similar problem of trans people in the show. It can be recognized as a combination of Cavalcante's idea of breakout texts and Joyrich's idea that queer created "a tension between the articulation of the mainstream and the unsettling of the mainstream, both framing and displacing a televisual logic as it attempts to take queer viewers, texts, and issues into account even as it aims to undermine TV's usual accounting" (Joyrich, 2014, p.133). The worry from trans people seldom or never appeared in a show but POSE pointed out. Like Cavalcante(2017) said, trans people are worried about how the screen showed trans people, and "the movie may have made people think you have to have the surgery" (Cavalcante, 2017, p.9). In the first season, episode 4, Elektra clarified the idea of why she wants to do the transsexualism operation, it is not to be a complete woman, but it is because of inconvenience. Many media coverages mislead us to believe that trans people will only be complete after they do the surge, but did the media reveal the truth about the inconvenience? I am glad to see queer TV like POSE pointed out the fact and eliminated the misconception of transsexualism operation. 

I believe POSE also indirectly explained why some people ask horrible questions to trans people. In season1, episode 7, Elektra's lover found she had done the surgery and became very angry. The words he uses: selfishness and stupidity, illustrate that he defined or identified Elektra as a toy to satisfy his perverted curiosity. This can be seen as how he identifies other trans people. In another scene in season2, episode1, Angel suffered dehumanization behavior by being photographed naked photos from the photographer. In their dialogue, he used the personal collection to highlight his wrong intention that he considers Angel a rare collection, not a human. He made her take off her clothes and underwear in an icy and commanding tone, and here's a detail of when he saw Angel take off her underwear that he swallowed. I think the director wanted to use this performance technique to express the ecstasy that he couldn't help but to imply his indifference and curiosity. The photographer, Elektra's lover in the play, identified some people's minds--to the hate, curiosity, shame, and indifference of crowds. 

All these scenes I showed above correspond to Joyrich's idea that queer TV created tension between ordinary television and queer TV(Joyrich, 2014). It focuses on the intersectional people at the edge of the marginalized LGBT people. It shows the function that broke up into the mainstream and made the marginalized group visible by revealing the issue of trans people of color.

Joyrich(2014) also mentioned that reproductive futurism rests on children all hope for the future. It believes that the primary motive for political science exists is to create a better future for the next generation. The fact that we don't know what will happen in the future also limits the idea of futurism. It is based on what people think or imagine about the present. But the idea that people must have children to ensure a future is common and expected(Harada, 2017).��

The ordinary TV follows the reproductive futurism pattern by creating thousands and thousands of similar televisions to meet the mass media's trend. Those televisions are TV's offspring which provide possibilities for future expectations.

I think this is why POSE only has three seasons because if it continues to self-reproduction, it may lose its initial goal to break up the normal TV interpretations of trans people. A meaningful queer TV might become an ordinary boring family drama, such as The Vampire Dairies, a fiction TV about vampires, werewolves, witches, and humans but focuses on heterosexuality across species. They are all busy dealing with their love and hate disputes. I think POSE also covers some repeated content implying the constant reproduction, but POSE retains its queerness since it only has three seasons. 

Cavalcante, A. (2017). Breaking into transgender life: Transgender audiences' experiences with “first of its kind” visibility in popular media. Communication, Culture & Critique, 10(3), 538–555. https://doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12165

Joyrich, L. (2014). Queer Television Studies: Currents, flows, and (main)streams. Cinema Journal, 53(2), 133–139. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2014.0015

Tongson, K. (2017). Queer. In L. Ouellette & J. Gray (Eds.), Keywords for media studies (pp. 157–160). essay, New York University   Press.

Harada, K. (2017). A challenge to reproductive futurism: Queer families and nonhuman companionships in ueda sayuri's the ocean chronicles. U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (2003), 52(1), 46-66. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2017.0011