couldn’t help thinking about Mapplethorpe (and the insightful critiques of his fetishistic work my Afropessimism professor introduced me to) while hearing the narrator talk about his head being cropped out of the picture — “symbolic decapitation” — taken by the white Dutch choreographer. also couldn’t help thinking about the drastic lack of nuanced, loaded, candid narratives from Black queer men who came of age at or near the height of the [white] gay rights movement and the AIDS epidemic… narratives…
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Trial Period 2023
i think the most fascinating thing about this is the thread of Jamie looking jealous whenever they caught a glimpse of Cody (the annoying white queer) being physically close to or intimate with a Black person that isn’t them. rarely do i see any queer media seemingly tug at that thread of Black gays, who give off the vibe of “i rarely fuck other Black people,” feeling some type of way when their favorite nonblack fuck buddy gets a lil…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
finally decided to rewatch this after coming across this review earlier today, which is the best reading of the film i’ve seen so far. there’s so much i could say about why this movie’s incredibly harmful and racially insensitive (at best) but so many other people with much more expansive vocabularies and incisive takes have already pointed that out, including Liv, whose reviews (here and here) helped me understand why my first viewing left me numb and conflicted. instead, i’m gonna share…
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