Reading response to “Welcome to the Queer Rebellion”

The audience for this piece is for the queer community. The authors use the word “we” a lot because they are including the readers who are queer. Especially at the end, the authors say, “We are outsiders-and we are stronger when we create together”. The authors are inviting the queer community to stick together and work together in the queer rebellion. This article was published in ada Gender, New Media & Technology which has is a medium for women to publish articles that support a new media or technology. This article specifically addresses a new media of the queer rebellion where the queer community would create art together.

The main idea of this text is that queers are still outsiders in the world and should therefore bond together and create a company for a “space of liberation”. The authors write that people still cannot accept that queer people exist. So, they argue that the queer community needs to bond together and support each other. The authors also mention that through queerness and art, they can tackle the racial divide and other acts of racism as violence. The text was created to promote the queer rebellion.

The goal for this text is to inform and invite the queer community to join the queer rebellion. The article starts off by introducing many artworks already created by the queer rebellion. These examples help to demonstrate the capability of the queer rebellion and to inspire the readers to join them. The authors want to unite all those who are queer and create a “queer third world liberation zone”.

I appreciated this article because of it illustrated the power of unity and support in a queer community. It is hard for any community to be close and unified, but this article promoted its unity, and through art the authors believe that it is possible to unite against hate. I enjoyed the beginning of the article with the narrative and pictures of artworks already done in the queer rebellion. I like how the artwork were very different and touched on many different topics. The queer rebellion supports all its members which I appreciate. As a connection to my personal experience, I like to explore art. I have come across many artworks that are controversial and many public organizations are not allowed to show the artwork. As a person who enjoys artwork, I would want a free space for the artist community to share and collaborate on their pieces without the hate.

One question that I have is whether we should separate the queer artist community with the artist community. It goes back to the same problem in twitter we saw. The division between the black twitter community and the white twitter community somewhat promotes or relays the message that the division between black and white is fine. The same goes for the queer community and the non-queer artists. If we start to distinguish and divide the queer and non-queer artist community, does this relay the message the queer community are outsiders and will continue to be outsiders?