Hyperallergic: QTPOC Artists Mine the Power of Intimacy

Hyperallergic: QTPOC Artists Mine the Power of Intimacy

07.24.2021

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QTPOC Artists Mine the Power of Intimacy

Review by Eileen G'Sell, Hyperallergic, July 2021

So often that it can feel inevitable, the creative output of BIPOC artists and makers is framed in the art world and broader cultural spheres strictly through what it resists or refuses: the overwhelming “specter of whiteness,” as Sherrow O. Pinder has put it, whose invisibility, for AnaLouise Keating, “is [its] most commonly mentioned attribute.” But what might it mean to refuse that framework entirely? To imagine a future unfettered by whiteness as the dominant norm?

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