#campness

[midnightblueiris]

Wow, Robbie on Instagram ranking Take That from the least camp to the campest😂

What a shame no one of the boy has answered yet.

[ethicallysaucedlibraryfaggot]

Eat up, Mummy made you some discourse

I came across the term “noguing” and I wanted to share some thoughts about queer theory and camp culture.

To begin, it must be acknowledged that voguing and ballroom were created by black and brown drag queens and trans people and so any mockery of this art form is not only homophobic but is highly racialised and violent toward those communities.

Many people (particularly straight, cis people) view voguing/ballroom through modern aesthetics and therefore do not see it as it is - a rejection of mainstream beauty standards, hegemony and restraint - we see this in the fact that voguing is literally about throwing yourself into extreme shapes and flinging of respectability for the sake of evoking emotions in the viewer. In order to learn to vogue, you have to be willing to look silly and fail because thats the only way to become better.

Similarly, campness as a counterculture involve rejecting modern ideas of minimalism (which is white supremacy repackaged as aesthetics) and the need to look put together or appeal to a straight audience. In order to do this we must constantly examine our own loyalty to beauty as something to strive for and be willing to be rejected by the culture we have been conditioned to appeal to.

I therefore posit that the reason that noguing is shit (aside from it looking bad) is that it is very clear watching it that these people are still holding on to the idea that to fully commit to a death drop is cringe because they might make a fool of themselves.

Cringe culture is literally white supremacy because it restricts those who engage in mocking others into having such tight control over their creative expression lest they actually do something sincere that doesn’t fit into the tightly regimented category of “cool”

[erookebbbwc]

whatever happened to camp – does it still exist? | read | i-D

If camp was the secret language of gay communities, is it still relevant today?

“Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration”

“In that way, camp can be feminist, because it's used as a tool to upend ideas of how women should be”

These two quotes from Amelia Abraham’s article I found to be relevant to what I’m trying to pursue within my own work. The notion of camp is something that I’ve neglected recently from my research and perhaps it’s an idea I need to look into further to give me a better sense of what i’m trying to convey with my own practice.

[sparrow93]

PSA: Pointing out a gay guys campness doesn't make you seem any more masculine.

[ocean-stuck]

OMYGODHEBAKESTHATSSOGAY by *Jazz-DaFunk

I can only imagine how many times Randy's heard that one...

(My cupcake *steals*)

[dracavia]

Come on Eurovision, you are totally not meeting your camp quota this year! So far only Finland and Romania are in my consideration, no-one else has gone over the top enough. Though I will say Malta's song was genuinely nice.

[thesescarsnolongerihide]

I need to be reunited with Martha soon! my life has been to 'straight' for the past month I need to bring the campness back soon and if there's one person that can bring that back it's Martha!

Hopefully going to his this weekend!