I just read this post by sparkindarkness, whom I don't know but whose post resembles many a rant I have ranted myself. While I believe in the potentially transformative/political power of queering tv via certain kinds of fic/vid/art practices, it in no way makes up for the lack of real queer representation on tv (for me). I find that boyslash or femslash (for ( Read more... )

Uh, wow, now LJ is apparently forcing all users to specify a gender, and removing the 'unspecified' option from the gender field - which is to say, all users must now identify as either male or female, period, end of discussion ( Read more... )

I was thinking the other day, after posting my most recent Mythbusters vid, about whether there's a kink tradition in vidding fandoms - whether there's a vocabulary of kink, or a recognizable genre of kink-vid, that vidders and vid-watchers understand as such. Or are there even very many vids that could be called "kink vids" in the first place? I ( Read more... )

you guys, I have found the most hilarious thing EVER. Look, look! It's kinkfreezone! A place for fic that has NO KINK IN IT WHATSOEVER ( Read more... )

apparently? this is a thing. here's my deal: I don't believe in coming out. I don't believe that I should have to. I hate the idea that queerness has to be announced - and therefore that heteronormativity is assumed/default. I hate the idea that being any kind of queer is like giving someone a surprise party, where you jump up out of a darkened ( Read more... )

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so, tonight was queer film night at my house, and we watched Were The World Mine (it was kind of bad, though the idea of the film was sweet). Queer film night arose a while ago as an idea when a pal of mine and I decided we wanted to watch lots of films where the queers don't get raped, beat up, or AIDS, don't attempt suicide, don't turn straight ( Read more... )

friends, did I miss it, or did we do a queer theory - Lee Edelman reading of the SGA episode Childhood's End already? Surely we've done that, right? Because, you know . . . ( spoilers. for, uh, Childhood's End. Here follows a giant queer-theory rant about the episode, its use of children as political figures, and the implications of homoerotics in this episode. )