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Tag Archives: queerness
Link Lineup – August 2021
It’s always so hard to pare down my links to a manageable amount rather than pouring out the entirety of my bookmarks for the month. But between last time and now, I have read some incredible things! Here’s a sampling … Continue reading
Posted in Links I Liked, Stitch Links To Stuff
Tagged cultural appropriation, hip hop, Korean hip hop, Lizzo, misogynoir, poetry, queerness, representation, superheroes
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Stitch @ Teen Vogue: LGBTQ+ Fans: We’re Here, Queer, and Remaking Fandom in Our Own Image
Fandom is incredibly queer. Its origins as a space for LGBTQ+ people are well-documented, and we see that today, too. Fandom is often an online-offline queer community, supporting fans who may or may not see themselves in actual source material, but who can gather … Continue reading
Posted in Stitch Elsewhere
Tagged fandom, Queer representation, queerness, Teen Vogue
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Stitch @ Teen Vogue: Lil Nas X Is Using Stan Twitter Tactics to Defend “Montero.” He Shouldn’t Have To
The thing is, Lil Nas X cut his teeth on stan Twitter as the user who used to run the popular Nicki Minaj stan account @nasmaraj. From his time as that BNF, he’s learned how to use fandom practices commonly … Continue reading
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Tagged homophobia, Lil Nas X, music, queerness, Teen Vogue
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Fleeting Frustrations #3: When White Queer Icons Like Ezra Miller Fail Us
It’s more important that we bask in Ezra Miller’s star as it begins to crest than we have the tough conversations about what it means that a queer icon getting visibility is partially responsible for a film that attempts to flat out humanize Darren Wilson, a murderer who killed Mike Brown because he was Black and read as a threat to Wilson because of it. Continue reading
Posted in Rants
Tagged antiblackness, Ezra Miller, Fleeting Frustrations, queerness, racism
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A Political Stitch
Note: if it’s not clear (but it should be), this is a celebration of my identity and my Blackness because February is Black History Month and it’s taken me this long to put my thoughts together. “I didn’t know you … Continue reading
Posted in Stitch Offline, Totally Anecdotal
Tagged Black history, black identity, blackness, queerness
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