{"id":923,"date":"2018-03-26T19:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T23:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/?p=923"},"modified":"2018-04-02T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:13:01","slug":"queer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/2018\/03\/26\/queer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 800px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-923-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/Week-11-Blog-Post.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/Week-11-Blog-Post.mp4\">http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/03\/Week-11-Blog-Post.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">This week, we&#8217;re addressing the idea of queer, not just those who identify as such, but how that word affects our interpretation of media. When I was younger, my mom used to say to me, &#8220;You&#8217;re so queer.&#8221; She did not mean it in a derogatory way, rather was using its denotative definition: strange or odd. Once I learned its definition I completely agreed with her because I was a weird kid at times that just did things for fun. The connotation of that word has certainly changed, as it encompasses a wide variety of individuals and is no longer simply an adjective, but has become a noun. I feel that this difference in definitions can lead to some explanation to the problems addressed by both Tongson&#8217;s and Mu\u00f1oz&#8217;s works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">While steps have been taken to make the idea of something or someone being identified as queer, there is still an unfulfilled desire to normalize such a concept. The definition of strange still plays into much interpretation of the word, and it has made us associate queer with &#8220;straying from the straightness, or norms.&#8221; However, much of the media we see today has attempted to show how this strangeness is all around us, and there are many examples of such a concept being exhibited in typically normalized scenarios.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">For my post this week I chose to take a clip from the show Mad Men, where Don and Roger share a few platters of oysters. This scene is filled with sexual tension, but it still beats around the bush. I chose to slow the scene down which, once I viewed it, sensualized the clip much more. Also, I took Ruby Rose&#8217;s song &#8220;Break Free&#8221; and replaced that as the audio for part of the clip. I chose this song because, as Tongson mentioned, she is a prominent, openly queer DJ. Moreover, this song is specifically about breaking free from the norms, no matter how hard it is, as long as it allows you to be yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">This is a sensitive topic at this time in the world, for if you describe something as queer now it is associated with &#8220;gay,&#8221; while years ago it was a more educated word for weird. I&#8217;ve seen things described as &#8220;queer&#8221; in many 19th Century novels, and admit that I have to reread the sentence to fully understand the way in which it has being used. All in all, I feel that I chose appropriate media for my piece this week, both which are addressing how hard it is to break free from the norms that have been established.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;re addressing the idea of queer, not just those who identify as such, but how that word affects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[72730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racialized-pleasures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}