modern queer conversations (part 1?)
as queer people living in societies that “other” the way that we love, many of us are pushed from a young age to dissociate sex from emotional intimacy, often at the expense of our emotional well being. specifically queer men, spend most of our lives actively repressing parts of our sexual identity to blend in, and as a result, resort to unhealthy coping mechanisms to meet our sexual needs.
this mini series aims to both satirize the ways that queer men facilitate their own objectification, and to criticize the way that we explore and understand queerness as a component of our identies. I juxtapose grindr messages with the settings they are often received/sent in to evoke a feeling of familiarity in those who have, at one point or another, utilized hookup apps to meet potential sexual partners.
