Ruberg’s piece made me think about how queer representation that doesn’t attempt to “move beyond” risks binding queer people to rigid boundaries and stereotypes. These representations are “neoliberal instrumentalization” of queer bodies, lives, and love! #gsws2001play
I liked the old time-y graphics of Undertale as opposed to 3D or CGI, it sorta writes queerness into the history of video games and gives it a cool aesthetic #gsws2001undertale
Is Undertale still queer if it has the option to kill? I don’t know if i can answer yes or no. Is queerness inherently non-violent?
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Love how the movie highlights the power of music to create and sustain identity and relationality in adolescence. #gsws2001mym
How does Moonlight resist normative understandings of Black masculinity within legible representations? In what ways does Jenkins show how queerness and masculinity are not antithetical? #gsws2001moonlight
I think Moonlight offers newly imaginative landscapes for black masculinity, but, in doing so, it puts black womanhood, and motherhood more specifically, within the margins, at an opposition to the depth of of male complexity #gsws2001moonlight
Muñoz's focus on German philosophers, those that fled from the Nazi party and even those that joined it, makes an interesting (and problematic) parallel between the promissory future of genocide, the reparative aftermath of genocide, and a queer idealism.
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I think the context of Germany philosophy, especially the ones that Muñoz is relying on from the mid 20th century, call into question the dangerously slippery promise of utopia, as it can be used to emancipate and also oppress.(1/2)
Munoz mainly ignores the problems inherent in the utopias presented by capitalism (coca-cola), colonialism, and genocide. Who’s utopia is liberating? When is “wishful thinking” (11) violent? Doesn’t the here and now matter? (2/2) #gsws2001comics
In creating emancipatory worlds, comics can defy real world hierarchies that oppress POC, queer ppl + disabled ppl. But the desires and possibilities they create “can’t escape” the oppressive contexts that structure queer/POC representation #gsws2001comics
Growing up I never had the chance to read comics. I feel like I missed out on the worlds, possibilities, escapes, and longings that comics provide for those who don’t quite fit into the world outside of the comic strips #gsws2001comics
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I enjoyed how On a Sunbeam used space as the setting for a queer narrative. Space, the far reaches of the galaxy, and other settings of the comic book reiterate the expansive and almost unimaginable aspects of sexuality and gender. #gsws2001sunbeam
Throughout the novel, Jules really struggled to fit into norms of what was expected from her, even w/i queer spaces (#queer!), I think its so beautiful that, of all people, she was the only person to ever tame and connect with a Tessain fox #gsws2001sunbeam
I think it really speaks to the issue that the queer community needs to amplify and accept ALL forms of radical queerness #gsws2001sunbeam
I found it so interesting how Ell’s queerness became legible through their actions, gestures, and animation, rather than concrete dialogue or romance. It really highlights how queerness is coded outside of language and sexuality #gsws2001sunbeam
I wish Freeman expanded on her discussion of desire vs. erotics. I think there are interesting theorizations of time within these longings that have cool implications for queer theory #gsws2001time
Erotics seems more fleeting and tied to an encounter whereas desire seems to be bound to the inaccessible/hard to reach future. How does historical denial/persecution of queer longings affect their relationship to time? How do queer ppl use longing to mediate time? #gsws2001time
I’m really confused what Gill-Peterson means by “plasticity”. Are they referring to the adaptability of bodies/identity? This article could be more accessible if this term, which is central to their argument, was defined from the get-go! #gsws2001gestures
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I love how this novel strives to center the marginalized experiences of queer POC at the heart of this novel. It speaks to the necessity of intersectional representation in YA literature and beyond!
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Even though Miel is Cis in WTMWO, the roses growing from her wrists offer a powerful symbol of the fragile connection between our imagined identities and our material bodies