Footnotes – Intersectional Strategies in (South) Africa: Queering the Stereotype
In this episode of Footnotes, we’ll dive deeper into the relation between main stream cultural production and queer cultural and artistic practices. What does it mean to produce ‘queerly’? What different strategies exist to create space for queer and nonnormatively gendered voices? Does one take a stand and offer explicitly ‘different’ perspectives to what audiences would expect? Does one place footnotes in an otherwise largely heteronormatively organised society in order not to lose as sense of togetherness and cohesion? Does simply adopt a new norm and start broadcasting that as the way to go? Or does one, to speak with Mireille Rosello, ‘decline’ participating in the exclusionary feelings that stereotypes produce by refusing them, rewriting and reorienting them towards new meanings that can hold true for all? What is the power of metaphor, language and music in these questions?
