Dear all – it’s been a while, but pleased to announce a forthcoming free event and screening in collaboration with the University of Stirling’s Queer Reading Group, and Creative Stirling on the 24 April 2024 4pm -7pm, @ Creative Stirling, King Street in Stirling City Centre.
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Open in new tab Queer Appropriations: The Ethics of Queer Use as Re-Use
As part of the University of Stirling’s Queer Reading Group and in collaboration with Creative Stirling, this special event focuses on recent discussions and debates concerning Queer Appropriation, Cultural Borrowing and Re-Use as a methodology and survival strategy for LGBTQ+ subjects. Sara Ahmed’s recent text What’s The Use: On the Uses of Use (2018) considers ‘queer use as reuse’ (198) this concept will frame this event which involves a special free screening of Daisy Asquith’s found-footage, experimental, poetic montage documentary film Queerama (2017) which charts the historical representation of LGBTQ+ folk on film and TV in the UK.
This screening will be preceded by two short presentations from Darren Elliott-Smith on recent investigations into ethical uses of queer appropriation by LGBTQ+ Youtube communities (see the recent HBomberguy expose on Youtube and Plagiarism for an insight on this) and River Seager on Queer Fandom, and followed by a discussion of Ahmed’s work on ‘Queer Use’ (2018).
Book free place via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-appropriations-the-ethics-of-queer-use-of-re-use-tickets-861526578187?aff=oddtdtcreator
And if you cannot join in person then we will be also streaming the first part of the event live on Teams here:
Passcode: 4GNjCU