巴黎在燃烧

girl you gotta have this gay energy

喜歡Pepper說那段话的状态whats good about being a women? Thanks to that I am smart. 男性氣質下偶然閃動的女性特質太迷人 每個人都太美了

就很喜歡看紀錄片 這部拍的尤其好 裡面的人都太鮮活了 不演 或者說演的特別好 特別ta們自己

鮮活得讓你有時候心臟疼 這是真實的minority的生活 你看到一個不屬於你的 你可能不會接觸的世界

Dance, music, food, they are all the celebration of life. If it’s all about life and living, then what’s the shame of it? Sometimes tragedy happened, but they lived their best life and they lived what they want to be, so don’t stop the music.

ball room這個表演真的處處充滿諷刺 一個比賽環節叫作mansact. queer men說自己時刻在觀察直男 how they act how they dress 所以自己才能假裝身份融入主流社會 我們總是說穿你想穿的做你想做的 其實現實社會還沒有進化到給每個人在每個地方說出這句話的權利

有時候對我bi的身份感覺很有趣好奇 一方面在「媚男」試圖拿捏父權制社會的審美機制，一方面又有一颗强烈與父權主義對著幹的心 但在观察queer women life发现其實一些queer女性也不知不覺將自己代入男性視角审视女性 你很難想像一個除去父權制以外的審美 好像就會回到那個問題

How to give a blow job in the age of metoo?

我覺得最簡單的回答還是do it only if u want to. 在私人生活裡不必要時刻帶著宏觀世界裡的價值觀保持警惕 拒絕把自己變成被任何形式綁架的奴隸

之前有拍攝要我幫忙找很紐約的女孩 我找到的拍攝方都很滿意

我在思考我到底是以什麼標準判斷很紐約長相的女孩

我想象中的紐約女孩確實是更大膽 很少浸泡在男性凝視下的長相

It’s again, double-bill time! Two seminal documentaries invite us back to the 1980s, Jennie Livingston’s PARIS IS BURNING is an eye-opening watershed to survey Harlem’s drag ball subculture, and by extension, queer existence, meanwhile Hiroshi Teshigahara’s ANTONIO GAUDÍ lingers mesmerically in Barcelona mostly, to arrange a tour of the starchitect’s jaw-dropping achievements.

For anyone who has been acquainted with Ryan Murphy’s hit FX drama POSE (2018-), PARIS IS BURNING gets audience a vantage point of its real-life inspirations, interviewing prominent figures of the participants, both legendary “mothers” of different “houses”, and their “children”, also presenting footage of various competitions that can bring the house down (the fad of voguing is a benediction), candor and amazement is in equal measure under Livingston’s circumspect gleaning, for one thing, no poignancy is permitted to color the film’s holistic positiveness that encompasses hopes, dreams, yearning, being yourself and blatant exuberance, introspection is merely a side dish.

And that lies exactly the strength and extraordinariness of Livingston’s work, since there are already too many instances of sorrow, discrimination and horror incurred to these marginalized individuals (gays, queens and transexuals, predominantly African-American and Hispanic), it is core-shattering to find out that one of the interviewers, Venus Xtravaganza is brutally murdered in 1988, aged only 23, two years before the film’s release, and obviously Livingston resists a great temptation not to put that pathos-driven message on the screen for sensationalizing or eliciting our rage and outcry, in the last resort, PARIS IS BURNING is the celebration of a subculture and its members, to inspire and encourage.

The ball competition sustains as the apex of its participants to obtain some semblance of mainstream conformity, to prove they can cut it for any stereotypes residing in a heteronormative society, but also playing up their glamor, flamboyance to the eleven if the category fits. The yen for acceptance while retaining one’s uniqueness is soberly laid bare in this culturally influential and tactically formulated time capsule.

2019年才看到这部片子，停留在历史里的唏嘘感慨继续在作祟着。人们对滥交感染艾滋死亡的恐惧瞬间就会转变成一种冒险的刺激。

跨性别女性与变装皇后的身份混淆在一起，出柜同性恋身份还会被父母赶出家门，那里是80年代末的纽约。

不喜欢摄影师刻意用镜头展现ta们的女性气质，比如说话是手的动作，太明显暴露出来是一个直人在摄像了，一股子大惊小怪的镜头语言。

拍跨性别女性用群像的方式，只会是浅尝辄止。

"I remember my dad used to say that you have three strikes against the world. Every black man has two that they're just black and they're a male. But you are black andd you're a male and you're gay. You're gonna have a hard fucking time. If you're gonna do this, you're gonna have to be strong than you've ever imagined." " you walk in you feel 100% right being gay. It's not like that in the world. You know, it should be like that in the world." "Spotlights." " I have to have that because I never felt comfortable being poor. Middle class doesn't suit me." " We're not gonna be shady just fierce." "To be legendary." ''Id love to be a rich white girl.They get whatever they want/' 'Most gorgeous secial things on earth.' 'which is my little personal thing so' 'A group of human beings with mutual bond/' 'house of princess.' Just enjoy it. If u shoot an arrow and go real high, hooray for you.