#queered

[themrsandmrsblog]

[allysacademicadventures]

What you did when I left the door behind

You love an idea. I haven't changed that idea, rather, I have lifted the veil which sits between that idea and reality. I have shown you that which I truly am, and you have rejected it in a frenzied rage. You reject anything which makes you question that idea, and why would you accept it as in doing so you would alter your own identity as you have framed it around this idea. So, you persist. You hold that idea so tightly, trying to make it reality. You need the idea to be real as the idea has become just as much a part of you as anything physical could, so you try, and you try, and you try to ‘rectify’ me, to change the tides back to the ebb and flow of your reality which is based on this idea. You try to fix this, you need to fix this, but you can't fix what isn't broken. I am not broken. Any brokenness that’s in me is from you. It is from the conditionality of love you have shown me, from the “I love you, but I can’t like this”. All you seem to do is break me. All you do is try to reshape me to fit with that idea, but the thing about that is, in doing so, you have bent me so far in an effort to mould me that I broke, and, if a descent of damage continues, I’ll become just another idea once again, out of your life in one way or another. Dead or rejected. I guess this is how people have always been queered, it’s the idea that if we aren’t broken they must break us. We stray from that which makes them comfortable, so we must be broken, defective, in need of fixing and thus they make us lesser. It’s this thinking which has queered me, in the vilest un-re-appropriated sense of the word. I am broken. I am not broken because I am queer, I am broken because of you.

[bubblewrappedexhibition]

bubblewrapped video material; this video serves to act as interpretation and context for the intellectual material provided by the respondents/participants of bubblewrapped, the research around the Johannesburg arts scene, and the personal experience of the curator.

[queering-relationships]

Why is Monogamy Problematic?

Monogamy is incredibly common is the modern world so people seem to be unwilling to question it. But is it really healthy? It relies almost completely on the idea of ownership of another body, the other person being wholly yours, and you being wholly theirs. This can be an incredibly comforting thought to people, but thinking about it in the grand scheme of things, it can be harmful. If each person does not have the same level of respect and trust in the partnership, it can easily become toxic and the idea of ownership can become the driving force in the relationship. This can be most aggressively seen in abusive relationships. One side of the relationship feels such greater ownership over the other person’s body and mind that the owned person can feel more like property than a human being. Partners can also stop seeing the relationship as mutually beneficial, making a utilitarian relationship more imminent.

[videovideozine]

Venu$ by Krister Larson

2min 55sec, Milwaukee WI, 2014

"The nude, most commonly female, is a clear depiction of the body, idealisms, and the male gaze. Venu$ asserts both roles in the exchange between model and artist, director and actor. Much like Boticelli's "Birth of Venus" we witness a snapshot of a happening, an exchange between bodies, voices, and hierarchy. What happens when these voices and bodies are queered or merge? Who addresses who? "

For more info about Krister Larson visit KristerLarson.com

~~~a Zach Zone Official Selection~~~

[lightlaughs-blog]

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, “Crimson & Clover” (Tommy James & The Shondells)