#radical text

[cocospadoni-blog]

“...a Stonewall-type moment of laughter when queer Christian’s sitting in a cathedral hearing the intonement of Romans 1:26- 7 one more time or one of the stories of the biblical eunuchs or Jesus’ words about marriage in heaven in Matthew 22 told “ straight” will begin to laugh, quietly at first but building to a crescendo that will sweep the queer world and disturb, disorder, and transform the straight church and its relationship with the biblical text” 

Elizabeth Stuart

[monkeyswearingpants]

"She offers the camera a hostage's smile, forced, false. Her smoky eyes suggest chaos witnessed: tear gas, rock missiles and gasoline flames. They paint her as a refugee of a teen culture whose capacity for real subversion was bludgeoned away somewhere between the atrocities of Kent State and those of the 1968 Democratic Convention, the start of a creeping zombification that would see youthful dissent packaged and sold alongside Pez and Doritos."

[theseachanged]

[sosarasaid]

...And then arrives at a house party, a place absent of authority, the aim of Friday night. “Partying, Partying,’” she sings again, now in detached self-narration. “Yeah!” reply her friends, and then the sequence is repeated to evoke the grand progenitor of all American music, the call and response of a Negro spiritual, harkening back to our nation's great unhealing wound, slavery itself. Are these not slaves of a kind? Are they not trapped here? Is consumerism not just another form of forced labor? In an age of harvested data and biological determinism there is no will and so no freedom of it—only constant manipulation of the pleasure principle, the bleary throbbing of overtaxed dopamine centers.

Arms So Freezy: Rebecca Black's "Friday as Radical Text"