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sometimes i feel like the attempted cleaning up of messy queer art by parts of the queer community is coming out a deep anxiety that if we stop appearing friendly and safe society will undo all the acceptance we've gained and throw us to the dogs. just something i think about
i don't want it to seem like i'm blaming the lack of challenging queer art entirely on the queer community. the fact of the matter is that publishers are also not super interested in these kind of stories from us, either.
if we started publishing more challenging art/stories it would be harder to keep treating us like children, exploit us, not take us seriously etc. but i'm also sensing resistance from within the community, and i think it partly comes from a fear of being vulnerable and rejected
imo queer artists are at a weird place right now where we've been ignored/shut out for so long that we don't know how to approach this new era of (sort of) being listened to (sometimes). we're worried if we're truly seen as we are we won't be accepted
and it's that Cringe thing of like, if one of us posts cringe then we've all posted cringe. so we police each other. this person's art is too messy and uncomfortable and Gross and what would the straights say??? what would they think of us??? it's all bad
i don't have a nice clean note to end this thread on. i don't usually tweet takes such as these but it's something i think about a lot and talk about with other artists. idk, i hope we can move forward.
