“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
I looked up the piece and I'm not sure why, but I thought the pile somehow resemble a body. It does not, it is exactly a pile.
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- Jan 2023
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one may find specificity by focusing on the idea of queer desire3 and where it can be safely developed in a hostile world.
When I was first grappling with my sexuality in middle school, I was very attached to a character from Attack on Titan called Armin Arlert. All my friends teased me, saying that Armin looked like a girl and I was being 'gay' for liking him. I constantly fought against that. Then, as the manga progressed, Armin is chosen for a specific mission since he was the only one who could pass off as a girl. I couldn't really deny it after that, but he essentially became a character where I could safely explore that interest in.
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how the potentiality and difference of queerness is often actualized as not being straight; how aes-thetic objects1 become animated by bodily desires that sit outside heteronormality; and why the exploration of queer aesthetic sensibility is important in a culture that leaves a mark on who and how one becomes in the world.
Even after reading all of this, I am still unsure about how I feel on defining queerness as 'not straight'. The feeling of otherness has been very present in a lot of the queer media I have consumed, and it is undoubtedly part of the queer experience in our world. Heterosexual desire is what's normalized in our society, and there are psychological consequences to that that lead to shared experiences, and therefore, queer aesthetics. However, I am more curious about portrayals of queer relationships not as 'not-straight', if that makes sense.
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“self-made kinship, chosen lineages, utopic futurity, exilic commitment, and rage at institutions that police the borders of the normal”
This section reminds me of Disney's The Owl House, an animated series created by a queer woman featuring a bisexual female lead in a same-gender relationship. Found family and rebelling against conformism are some of the central themes of the series; unfortunately, Disney had some issues with how explicitly queer the series was and cancelled it.
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