SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities

ABSTRACT

The visual and coded components of this zine intend to portray a queer coming-of-age journey, parting from the public sphere of imposed shame, violence, and subcultural homoeroticism in heteronormative practices to reach the destination of intimacy and love. The zine tries to capture the complex and hybrid queer process of becoming and unbecoming. From isolation and pain to belonging and ease, the zine visually portrays the coming-of-age and coming-out process of queer individuals within the Western context as an experience of disturbance and imposed shame that is superposed and deconstructed by the intelligibility of non-normative queer bodies and stories. “The light” or the potentiality for new queer futurities differs from queer narratives rooted on negative feelings of violence and (life in) death or contrastively on the creation of the ideal homonormative queer subject through fixed neoliberal teleological narratives with one ultimate purpose: the modern neoliberal queer subject.

KEY WOrDS

Queer; Futurities; Temporalities; Homonormativity; Neoliberalism

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