I found this TED Talk while I was searching for something to post and I think it encompasses what we've talked about in our discussions of Kiss of the Spider Woman. iO Tillett Wright is a photographer who set out to photograph as many LGBTQ identifiers as she could with the help of the HCR. The video is a little less than 20 minutes, but if you watch just a few minutes you can understand what she's presenting. I feel like this goes along with the previous post about putting people into boxes and how sexuality is much more complicated than people may think. The talk also presents ideas about sexual fluidity, which I think helps with understanding Valentine's sexual identity.
I really liked the quote “we seek out environments that approve our personal choices.” It often occurs in our society that people only want to perpetuate their own opinions, and not open their minds to new ideas which I think directly relates to the idea of sexuality. We want to put people in these predetermined boxes in order to keep our own order and sanity within our society, but things obviously don’t always work out that way. Her story was really interesting in that it was emblematic of the fact that sexuality is an extremely complicated subject that can’t just be defined through heterosexuality or homosexuality.
ReplyDelete