- 4th April 2012 at 8:49am
- ♥421
- ©adamgolfer.com
- #john waters #internet #young people #aesthetics #get a look
I spent an afternoon in John Waters’ backyard taking pictures for WSJ Magazine a few months back. The issue just came out this weekend. He is insanely cool.
My dogg photographing our nation’s finest.
“When I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you’re a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin’ down MasterCard. But there’s no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I’m mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that. Get a look!” —John Waters
- 28th March 2012 at 1:15pm
- #pro-ana #therapy #community #support #tumblr #censorship #anorexia #eating disorder
BBC - Newsbeat - Tumblr to ban self-harm and eating disorder blogs
Until now the site, which claims to have up to eight million UK users, had allowed users to post any images, videos and comments on the subjects.
Eating disorder campaigners have welcomed the change but some Tumblr users claim blogs are a form of therapy.
An online petition to try to stop Tumblr removing blogs has been signed by more than 1,600 people.
It reads: “We simply post this content because it is an accurate representation of our own thoughts and feelings that we would not otherwise be able to express: to us it is a form of therapy.”
- 27th March 2012 at 12:45pm
- ♥2
- #Gillian Wearing #art #identity #people #photography #sign #thoughts #gender
WEARING, Gillian, Signs That Say What You Want Them To Say And Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say,London, Maureen Paley - Interim Art London, 1997
- 5th March 2012 at 12:32pm
- ♥937
- ©meredithgraves
- #being weird #community #gender #looking weird #queer #trans #making space
Because I spend so much time now in a very professional, gender normative work environment, I have to remind myself that I love weird people, I am weird, I want to be weird, and being normal is truly horrifying. I’m thinking of that experience of seeing someone on the street or on the bus who is working some kind of weird, non-normative look and feeling some delight and relief, like the person’s existence is making space for you. I have often felt that way when I see other visibly queer or visibly trans people, or other kinds of rule-breakers. It’s beautiful to see people taking those risks and its wonderful to have those moments of mutual recognition with a stranger in the midst of a hostile world.
- 23rd February 2012 at 11:13am
- ♥2
- #carson mccullers #judith halberstam #female masculinity #quote #longing #belonging #power #rebellion
Female Masculinity
From Female Masculinity, by Judith Halberstam, re. the character of Frankie in Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding :
“Frankie in particular understands desire and sexuality to be the most regimented forms of social conformity- we are supposed to desire only certain people and only in certain ways, but her desire does not work that way and she finds herself torn between longing and belonging.” (p8)
“Frankie Adams … constitutes her rebellion not in opposition to the law but through indifference to the law: she recognizes that it may be against the law to change one’s name or add to it, but she also has a simple response to such illegal activity: “Well, I don’t care.” I am not suggesting in this book that we follow the futile path of what Foucault calls “saying no to power,” but I am asserting that power may inhere within different forms of refusal: “Well, I don’t care.” (p9)
Girl Talk 2011 - Tobi Hill-Meyer
Tobi addresses the similarities between transmisogyny and femmephobia from her perspective as a butch trans woman, and explains the mutual ally relationship that she has formed with the cis femme women in her life.
O.M.F.G.
I have never loved a video this much. ever.
You NEED TO WATCH THIS ENTIRE THING. It is long, but so SO worth it.
I know that I was just complaining about how everything having to do with femmes is always seen froma butch perspective, but Tobi does an incredible job speaking on her own experiences of transphobia and relaying them to her deep bonds with femmes.
Seriously, watch this.
And Tobi - I am in love with you. If you are ever in WI we need to have lots of coffee.
“Despite the fear of masculine energy coming from trans women, it’s not hard to see instances where masculinity is highly valued in queer women’s community. Masculinity is assumed to be intense and powerful. Trans men are radical and hip. Butch women are transgressive and daring. Masculinity is hot. Masculinity is attractive. Those who are femme are seen as conformists to traditional trappings of something fake and superficial. Supposedly ignorantly laboring under a false consciousness and incapable of being effective activists.”
“I was once with a group of butches who were trying to explain that they didn’t get privilege for being butches. And they compared their experiences to gender conforming people, and talked about all the messed up treatment they received for being butch. The point I made was that they weren’t being treated that way for being masculine, but for being gender non-conforming. And they just couldn’t see the distinction because they only experienced the two at the same time. However, if they were to compare their experience to someone who was gender nonconforming and feminine, well, it would be a lot harder to say that masculinity isn’t privileged in our society.”
(via garconniere)
Trans Media Watch, Leveson Inquiry
Around 54 mins in, also the transcript and evidence submitted by TMW on this page too.
- 8th February 2012 at 11:53am
- ©youtube.com
- #sarah pink #visual research methods #sociology #methodology
SAGE Methodspace Sarah Pink (by sagepublications)
Sarah Pink talking about doing visual sociology/anthropology and visual ethnographies.
Cindy Crabb talks about DORIS zine (by courtneychappellart)
“guilty knowledge”
link: John Brewer, Inescapable burden of ‘guilty knowledge’
Those who have carried out narrative research on Northern Ireland and confronted the problem of “guilty knowledge” are not so reckless. Fastidious care is taken when writing up the results. Anthony McIntyre, one of the Belfast Project researchers and a former IRA member, may feel under threat, but spare a thought for the respondents duped by the reported concealment from them of the risks of participating. Think, too, of the impact on other researchers’ access, let alone the potential destabilisation of the peace process.
Life in the Archives - SFMOMA, OPEN SPACE
creative use of archives:
These questions animate the work of E. G. Crichton, artist-in-residence at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transexual Historical Society of San Francisco. Crichton confesses that she has always been “a sucker” for archival mysteries and has found “the visual evidence of a person’s life uniquely compelling.” This artist’s work suggests that archives (and the mysterious objects they preserve) resonate with particular poignancy in outlaw cultures and communities — queer communities, in this case. Quite ordinary things that people usually throw away or overlook may create, for queers, empathic links to enigmatic pasts. A matchbook, a softball mitt, a bow tie, or feather boa may shed light on the queer past’s obscure terrain. Crichton describes herself as a “matchmaker.” She introduces living artists to queer precursors whose effects are housed in the archives.
These “matches” engender the creation of all manner of artifacts, paintings, photographs, installations, performances, videos, poetry, scholarship, and music. Through these creative engagements, transhistorical bonds of affection and affinity form. Crichton sees these connections as “a kind of lineage, one that resides outside bloodlines and marriage contracts and often outside identity boundaries.” The artist has made twenty-six matches to date — some across geographical as well as well as temporal frontiers. For each matched pair, she creates a formal portrait.
