From the Blog
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Queerness: Intrinsic or Outside?
In anti-LGBT imagery, you’ll often notice the same three symbols: a family, a shield or umbrella, and that damn rainbow coming from somewhere out of sight. What is the narrative goal of this visual storytelling? Does Queerness come from the Outside?
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AIn’t Art
Yesterday I slipped up and said “AI art,” despite promising myself I’d never apply the word art to the coagulated slop that makes up an estimated 70% of Instagram content at this point. Ever since that AI-generated image won a State Fair art contest in 2022, it has become all too easy to fall into…
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Desaucerfication
I scrape my high-top chair closer towards the table, the thin metal legs screeching against the cement floor, the sound echoing unpleasantly across the near-empty restaurant. Everything about this dining experience is barren. The dining room is cold, the dishes lack garnish, plastic silverware comes wrapped in crinkly cellophane, and the menu is a QR…
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Creation & Judgment (It’s Not What You Think)
I’ve always said that creation happens alone and in the dark. Whether it’s waking up hours before sunrise, or staying up long after everyone else has gone to bed, there’s something about the dark solitude that’s sacred and inspiring. And equally importantly, messy.
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Keep Feeling
“Have you noticed,” he continued, “That we stopped saying ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?’ Now everyone’s all about safe spaces.” Soon I was less focused on the conversation and more focused on what I was feeling: pissed off.
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