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A Whale Unbothered: Theorizing the Ecosystem of the Ballroom Scene
Julian Kevon Glover
The ballroom scene’s Black queer frequency sonically creates opportunities for its members to refuse understanding themselves and their journeys in accordance with linear notions of time (past, present, and future) and hegemonic conceptions of “progress.” Ballroom’s Black queer frequency enables its Black and brown members to create, cocreate, mix, and remix their own stories and the meanings derived from their embodied knowledge in ways that measure “progress” as a process of continual transformation rather than a final product.
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 13, 2022
Category
Music, Gender
Subjects
Blackness, Transgender, Queer Art & Theory