Finale, at long last
Paris is Burning won and I am never doing anything with this blog again
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Octavia St. Laurent in ‘Paris Is Burning’ (1990)
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my stance on the queer media tournament is that Paris Is Burning shouldn’t have been included. yes, it’s objectively the most important queer media in the tournament. but it was also the only one that wasn’t a work of fiction. it’s a documentary about real people. one of the women involved was murdered, and the final scene of the film is her sister reacting to the murder. i just don’t think that it can be put up against works of fiction, if that makes any sense. say what you want about any of the other media in the tournament, but Paris Is Burning is objectively the most important. i don’t want to get involved in any discourse, because this isn’t even something there should be discourse about. a woman fucking died.
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i'm watching paris is burning and im just sobbing over venus xtravaganza saying she wants to get married in a church wearing white. like its such a basic desire, a desire most people just brush past and see as a normal part of life but for her as a transwoman its something that feels out of reach and like one of her wild dreams
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Paris is Burning is up free on youtube fyi. If anyone wants an easy recoursce for (poc)queer history and culture to wash away the James Somerton bullshit
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