The Representation of Black Queer Masculinities on YouTube in the Film Out of This World

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI:10.25159/2663-6565/14346
Lwando Majikijela
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This article is an explorative study of the documentary film Out of This World (2017), which captures the narratives and experiences of queer individuals in Johannesburg, South Africa, through a series of snapshots. Guided by activist and host Mykki Blanco, the film explores queer creative cultures in post-apartheid South Africa using YouTube as a platform. It exposes the lived realities of queer voices often silenced and marginalised, bringing visibility to stories of urban CBD and township queer experiences. The film navigates the experiences of the “born-free” generation within the queer community, as they grapple with continued marginalisation. Utilising social media, the film exemplifies self-fashioned queer visualities in post-apartheid South Africa, enabling visibility and belonging for some queer individuals. The film employs YouTube as a visual media to understand how black queer people forge spaces of visibility, countering historical oppression and erasure. The article serves to explore and discuss how black queer masculinities are represented on YouTube in the film Out of This World. The article will employ Grant Andrews’s concept of “mirror” and “mirroring,” utilising visual media to foster recognition and identity in the post-apartheid context. The project uses qualitative visual content analysis to unpack the complex social and cultural dynamics represented in these texts, and the analysis demonstrates how these visual texts are themselves sites of resistance and of imagining and claiming “liveable lives” that the transgressive vulnerabilities allow for.
电影《Out of This World》中 YouTube 上的黑人同性恋男性形象
本文是对纪录片《Out of This World》(2017 年)的探索性研究,该片通过一系列快照捕捉了南非约翰内斯堡同性恋者的叙事和经历。在活动家兼主持人迈基-布兰科(Mykki Blanco)的指导下,该片以 YouTube 为平台,探索了种族隔离后南非的同性恋创意文化。影片揭露了经常被压制和边缘化的同性恋者的生活现实,让人们看到了城市中央商务区和乡镇同性恋者的经历。影片讲述了同性恋群体中 "自由出生 "一代的经历,以及他们如何应对持续边缘化的问题。影片利用社交媒体,展示了种族隔离后南非同性恋者自我塑造的视觉形象,为一些同性恋者带来了能见度和归属感。影片利用 YouTube 这一视觉媒体来了解黑人同性恋者如何打造可视空间,对抗历史上的压迫和抹杀。本文旨在探讨和讨论电影《走出这个世界》中 YouTube 是如何表现黑人同性恋男子气概的。文章将采用格兰特-安德鲁斯(Grant Andrews)的 "镜像 "和 "镜像 "概念,利用视觉媒体在后种族隔离背景下促进认可和身份认同。该项目使用定性视觉内容分析来解读这些文本所代表的复杂的社会和文化动态,分析表明了这些视觉文本本身是如何进行抵抗的,以及如何想象和主张 "可生活的生活",而这正是越轨的脆弱性所允许的。
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