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The Great Refusal
I find that I go to the Art Institute much less than I’d like to, and I’m hoping that this series will encourage me, as well as you, the reader, to take advantage of our world-class museum and the exciting new temporary exhibitions that are shown there.
Arts & Culture
A division was created between more acceptable forms of homosexuality (i.e., devoted, monogamous, upstanding gay couples) and everyone else (i.e., S&M, body modification, trans, etc.). Opie represented these individuals in a way that valued their differences against the pressure to integrate into a more “palatable” version of homosexuality. “The Great Refusal” is thematically aligned with Opie’s desire for a multitude of perspectives on how queerness can and should be represented.
Queer Concerns & Attachments
‘The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics.’
A division was created between more acceptable forms of homosexuality (i.e., devoted, monogamous, upstanding gay couples) and everyone else (i.e., S&M, body modification, trans, etc.). Opie represented these individuals in a way that valued their differences against the pressure to integrate into a more “palatable” version of homosexuality. “The Great Refusal” is thematically aligned with Opie’s desire for a multitude of perspectives on how queerness can and should be represented.
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The lecture focused on the history of transgender studies and how it has earned legitimacy, to a point where a self-identified trans person like Dr. Stryker can contribute to the discourse as a figure of authority, rather than as merely the subject of the conversation.
Stryker started the lecture by defining the ‘Transgender Phenomenon’ as that which ‘disrupts or denaturalizes the normative phenomenon,’ as distinguished from a transgender ‘thing’ — that is, a stable and singular identity or set of traits.
Trans-forming
Dr. Susan Stryker Lectures on the History and Evolution of Transgender studies.
The lecture focused on the history of transgender studies and how it has earned legitimacy, to a point where a self-identified trans person like Dr. Stryker can contribute to the discourse as a figure of authority, rather than as merely the subject of the conversation.
Stryker started the lecture by defining the ‘Transgender Phenomenon’ as that which ‘disrupts or denaturalizes the normative phenomenon,’ as distinguished from a transgender ‘thing’ — that is, a stable and singular identity or set of traits.
