Feb 22
I can’t stop thinking about the pool scene & underwater miss. The sense of liberation and desire they felt must’ve been exhilarating yet so peaceful. Free from societal norms, violence, and discrimination. To just be.
A queer utopia.
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I can’t stop thinking about the pool scene & underwater miss. The sense of liberation and desire they felt must’ve been exhilarating yet so peaceful. Free from societal norms, violence, and discrimination. To just be.
A queer utopia.
Star Trek as a Queer Utopia
I'm writing a research paper for one of my classes that's seeking to answer the question "are utopias limited by the context they're created in?" by looking at the lack of queer utopia in Star Trek. My current issue is that I have too many ideas and need to pick one to focus on as my exhibit source. My slides with a full explanation of each idea are below the cut.
Also y'all are nerds here so if anyone has suggestions of peer reviewed academic sources that relate to star trek and queerness/utopia/censorship please send them my way!!! (or even not peer reviewed stuff especially about censorship I'm struggling to find sources)
Which path should I follow?
Original Crew (TOS censorship, AOS Sulu, SNW Chapel)
Trill Symbionts (Tal & Dax and transness)
No Happy Couples (disco gays die & lwd is a parody show)
Vanilla extract / idk / what's star trek
My queer utopia might be Wind in the in the Willows.
Ratty and Mole is the nicest couple. They are so good to each other.
And they are good to their friends as well.
And they just go out on the river and mess about in boats and have small adventures.
But don't forget to bring along good food!
Solarpunk and Queerness
Gonna talk a bit about diversity in Solarpunk this week, because I kinda feel like it. :P
I think the group that Solarpunk as a social movement has the least problems with, is queer people. Maybe, too, because a lot of Solarpunks are queer themselves. There is an interesting conversation to be had about why it is that the genre is so very popular with queer folks. If I (a queer person myself) was to make a bet, I would guess it was because us queer folks really need some hope in a world that seems to be against us more and more. But that is just my theory.
As I said before: Solarpunk needs to be more than fancy green technology. It also needs to be a socially progressive culture. Because social stuff and environmental stuff are very much interconnected. And in the end, Solarpunk is supposed to be utopia, right?
When it comes to queer acceptance, I think what we should aim for (and depict in our fiction) is a world that really accepts all sort of queer people.
Homosexual couples living together and marrying. Those couples adopting kids (or, heck, having some of their own). Trans people being allowed to exist and self-id. Also: Trans people being allowed to accept no matter how far they wanna go in their medical transition. You know, not all trans folks wanna fully medically transition and that is alright. And speaking of which: Allowing inter folks to just exist however they want. Some inter people might wanna have stuff done - but not all want. Don't force it on them, but do not bar them from it, when they are adults. (Yes, that is something that happens.) Allow people on the aroace spectrum to exist. And also: Allow for polyamorous marriages.
And also: Stop being so darn normative in everything. No more heteronormativity. No more cisnormativity. No more mononormativity.
Aka: Allow everything to just exist within the public eye.
Oh, and sex positivity. Just general sex positivity.
This semester’s final papers to close out Year One of the PhD:
a. Here’s why Percy Shelley’s “The Witch of Atlas” was super utopic (oh and queer)!
b. Here’s why Critical Role’s encounter with Isharnai was super utopic (oh and queer)!
c. Here’s how Brandi Carlile’s “Fulton County Jane Doe” reworks ‘mourning’ into something never-ending that doesn’t require a pre-existing relationship. But also, here’s how that’s a nice utopian (and queer) move!
It’s been a big mood for four months.
had a good snow day with friends and fam that i love a lot so i drew them terribly
Here’s my girl and I modeling Yamuna Forzani clothing for a shoot by Naomi Moonlion about Queer Utopia
Electrosexual returns with a slice of acid-infused synthetic audio wisdom, pairing with forward-thinking psychedelic witch KARMA SHE for ‘Watch Me Lakshmi’. Marrying frantic acidic synth programming with a dirty low-slung bass line, the track is a fierce and urgent acid ’n’ high-hat rager that climaxes with cheeky vocal raps from KARMA SHE. A peak time workout. ´Watch me Lakshmi´ is about picturing and aknowledging the past, present and aiming at reconstructing and reinventing an utopian future. Watch me Lakshmi is a personal cyberpunk world of our dreams. It uses collage and assemblage from the old world through the use of traditional themes: the world egg, glowing flowers, radioactive nest and magic owls in order to channel empowerment, wisdom, continuity and victory.
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