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“People will be writing about
eternal dance with each
literally dying because of the
There needs to be a way to talk about
it that doesn’t just pathologize the be-
haviour.
So the way I’m thinking about it - I don’t
necessarily have a framework for thinking
about it yet, but it’s more a case of just
stripping back the problems that I see with
other ways of talking about it.
With drug use: what is acceptable about
prescribing
methamphetamine-derived
substances to children who can’t focus
on things, or to office workers that aren’t
productive enough, and then wrong about
people taking it to enhance their own plea-
sure? So, where do we draw that line. And
then with sexuality, where is it okay... So
basically it’s still an open question.
Why do you choose such art mediums as
sewing and performance?
or me—it’s a really banal observation,
but clothes and the way that people
dress, it always felt really important to
me. I don’t think about it that consciously,
but it’s a way that I work through my own
identity and the way that I think about who
I am. It’s just intuitive to me that there is
something queer about caring about your
clothing.
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Do you think it is just a comfortable medium
to go about the topics that you care about?
es. This isn’t something that i’ve had to
articulate in a big way, but there is this
kind of relationship between fashion and
queer sexuality, it has this kind of symbi-
otic relationship in some ways. There has
always been an obsession in queer culture
with fashion and beauty. There’s this weird
back and forth between them.
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Performance?
ell, the idea of the performative in general seems a little overused at this point. It’s just a base-
line observation for me that something like identity is performed, so performance is a natural
posture for me. That just makes sense to me.
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