Who are you before the world decides for you? Some people are allowed to simply exist. Others are seen first through race, sexuality, religion, or gender, forced to carry the weight of representation before being recognized as individuals. The burden is not only becoming oneself, but doing so under the gaze of others.
Read MoreBetween postcolonial theory, legal thought, and contemporary artistic practices, a paradox emerges: what appears as inclusion often leaves its structures intact. Voice is not only silenced, but translated and reframed. The question is not how to make the subaltern speak, but how to listen without deciding in advance what can be heard; how to remain in that suspended space where meaning loosens, and something other begins.
Read MoreWe like to think looking is harmless. That to see is to understand. But what if the gaze does more than observe? What if it decides? This piece examines how two films: Rear Window and Get Out explore the gaze, how it frames and reduces the observed.
Read More1970s New York was dancing, even as a crisis was being ignored. As AIDS spread in silence, artists like Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz turned intimacy, rage, and loss into acts of defiance, forcing a society that refused to look to finally see.
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