"Beautiful and Lofty Things": Queer Appeals to Power & Turn of the Century Sexology
Sexology’s relationship with homosexuality is more ambiguous and complex than a simple and clear-cut categorisation into the homo/hetero binary. [...]
Jennifer Katherine Shields - artist, curator, writer
Jennifer Katherine Shields is an artist, curator, writer, and musician from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa.
Articles
A Cult of Representation: Ignoring Harmful Ideologies in Favor of Queer Rep
Perhaps what we need is a new *L Word*; one filled so thoroughly with minority representations that we no longer are the minority; one that does not utilise our representations to justify harmful normative ideals. [...]
Enormous, Threatening, Yet Dimly Perceivable: On Creating Radical and Threatening Postmodern Art Under Late Capitalism
Written for an essay/blog assessment in a sociology of pop culture course at the University of Auckland in September 2015. As I occupy the [...]
Exhibition Proposal
EXHIBITION PROPOSAL, 2015, 8-page zine consisting of surreal but serious exhibition proposals. [...]
Biopower, death, and normative biopolitical genocide
Foucault states that state racism “does make the relationship of war – ‘if you want to live, the other must die’ – function in a way that is completely new and that is quite compatible with the exercive of biopower”. The ‘completely new’ way he references is normative biopolitical genocide. [...]
there is no queer community in new zealand
8 page zine composed of screenshots of media coverage of the 2015 Auckland Pride parade and the No Pride in Prisons protest [...]
