I was posting on a dear comrades page about the realm of the arts. It then came to Black experience art or the art of the Other.
Here's my reply to that.
"My life has not been peaceful nor happy. Peace, and happiness are very rare for some. This being so some art just by it's nature is tragic. I'm a technicolored person raised in a powerful pink country. However still I stay away from Black art even cinema."
"I have no need to pay someone to see humiliations, and horrors I have to eat everyday."
"I already know I'm fucked."
"The same with what passes for Queer art. I know they hate us, and want us all dead. The art of the "Other" is for our tormentors our murderers to view. See, and maybe learn from it. Thereby then maybe giving us a break. A guilt edged "break" might keep me alive."
"As for my art which has been derided as "white" self hating useless to the movement by progressive race fanatics. Just as Nazi fanatics equally hate it.
They seem uncomfortable with it for the same reasons.
My Angel faerie sci/fi dreams of a world of beauty, and kindness. My world where things are gentle beautiful, and funny.
This is the world 'I' want to live in."
This is an outline of another, and better reality.
This is my art.
My Outsider Art.
See above,...this is 'my' Nigger Art.
To be one’s authentic self is the greatest offense to ideologues. They perceive it as an attack; and indeed, you must strike back hard just to keep their shackles off you. Merely by being who you are, and expressing yourself, you do this.
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the following.
ReplyDeleteCamille Paglia has argued cogently that a desirable state of society would be one in which bisexuality is taken for granted - where the whole range of sexual expression, in any person, would be accepted as a matter of course. No one would insist upon imposing a sexual identity on you, or carry around a bag of labels to slap on us.
I’m inclined to agree with her. I do think that would be the ideal state of society, sexually speaking; it’s the absence of identity politics. And maybe one day it might be a reality, somewhere.
But in the world in which we live, it doesn’t seem to have any possibility of existing. Instead of universal acceptance, we have the “we’re just like you” Syndrome: gays aping straights in hopes of being allowed to exist and pretend that they’re “equal.”
As far as I can tell, the only real liberationist path is that of radical militancy, like Harry Hay’s. And what was his take on militancy? That gays are a separate kind of human beings, a different people, even with a different spiritual nature: a different kind of identity.
And there is strength in this. When the oppressor starts talking about how straight gays may be acceptable, but those awful BLs are beyond the pale and utterly inadmissible, I can fire back: “I don’t let straight people tell me what sexuality is acceptable in me; you got that, straight boy?” The power of this comes from alienating the oppressor - or rather, from forcing him to confront the fact that he has alienated me. I don’t see how I can push back against oppression by pretending that we are all pansexually equal. It is separatism that has political potency.
I don’t see how to reconcile these extremes. Did Ginsberg somehow pull it off? Or is it better to boldly wave the Flaming Faggot BL banner, the Jolly Roger of sexual anarchy if ever there was one?
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As the noted commentator artist wise guy pastor, and generally annoying personality "Uncle Sidney" often put's it.
ReplyDelete"...Fuck'em"