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What happens to queer community, bodily expression & identity when queer spaces are closed & communities move online? This workshop critically reflects on, & invites participation in, the collaborative project Bois of Isolation: An Instagram platform for people of marginalised genders to share selfies of their spaces & processes of queering gender binaries in the pandemic. The project uses hashtag commons & selfies to challenge the hegemonic visual culture social media can perpetuate: Binarised gender stereotypes, exclusion of bodies deemed ‘other’, & hierarchies of value in which white, able-bodied, heterosexual, young & ‘healthy’ are supreme. Bois of Isolation contributes to communal aesthetic spaces in which bodily & gender plurality & fluidity are expressed & celebrated.

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Dawn Woolley, Jonas Howden Sjøvaag - SAR 2021 presentation - Dawn Woolley - 2022

  • Contents
    • Bois of Isolation SAR Conference
    • #Work Life
    • #Bed
    • #Framing
    • #Distortion
    • #SelfOtherBoundaries
    • #Hair
    • #GroupSelfie
    • Info and References
    • Dawn Woolley, Jonas Howden Sjøvaag
  • Meta
  • Comments
  • Terms
  • contents
    • Bois of Isolation SAR Conference
    • #Work Life
    • #Bed
    • #Framing
    • #Distortion
    • #SelfOtherBoundaries
    • #Hair
    • #GroupSelfie
    • Info and References
    • Dawn Woolley, Jonas Howden Sjøvaag
  • abstract
    What happens to queer community, bodily expression & identity when queer spaces are closed & communities move online? This workshop critically reflects on, & invites participation in, the collaborative project Bois of Isolation: An Instagram platform for people of marginalised genders to share selfies of their spaces & processes of queering gender binaries in the pandemic. The project uses hashtag commons & selfies to challenge the hegemonic visual culture social media can perpetuate: Binarised gender stereotypes, exclusion of bodies deemed ‘other’, & hierarchies of value in which white, able-bodied, heterosexual, young & ‘healthy’ are supreme. Bois of Isolation contributes to communal aesthetic spaces in which bodily & gender plurality & fluidity are expressed & celebrated.
  • Dawn Woolley, Jonas Howden Sjøvaag - SAR 2021 presentation - Dawn Woolley - 2022
  • Meta
  • Comments
  • Terms

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