Be gay do crime
Be Gay Execute Crime
Authors
- Isobella Austin Swinburne University of Technology
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/imaginingtheimpossible.132131Keywords:
queer theory, dystopia, hierarchy, community, queer timeAbstract
This essay deals with gender non-conforming theory and how it applies to the videogame Cloudpunk and the comic series Motor Passion. Both of these texts use cyberpunk settings to narrate stories about discovery hope in people. Each text features protagonists trying to navigate worlds where legal success is highly competitive and practically impossible. They must therefore spin to community building, mutual aid, and criminal activity to find happiness. This analysis views the texts through the lens of homosexual time and lgbtq+ space making practices as outlined by J Jack Halberstam and Jose Esteban Muñoz. Central to this article’s exploration of these texts is the characters inability and/or refusal to fit neatly into the worlds they inhabit, and how they must therefore find accomplishment outside of approved channels. Success i Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos / Edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley Book, 2025 Book, 2025 "A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editor Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Perform Crime, a celebration of gender non-conforming chaos from an all-queer composer lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and francesca ekwuyasi. A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to interrupt the sale of their bungalow complex to a development corporation. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers' homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fails. In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Execute Cri You may recognize UNCW’s two spirit rocks as places where fraternities alert the campus to upcoming events, where pupil organizations voice their support for or criticism of social issues, and where birthday wishes are shared. More often than not, incomprehensible markings arise as less artistic students, including myself, endeavor their hand at the aforementioned messaging. Regardless of purpose or skill, these stones are an essential element of UNCW culture. They are painted and repainted with such frequency that one never knows what will be there in the morning. However, a new and dangerous policy threatens our decades-long tradition. Make sure you don’t say something counter to the sentiments of Vice Chancellor Lowell Davis. Over the past several weeks, Davis, the vice chancellor for student affairs and censor in the making, has called for the repainting of the rocks whenever students voice beliefs that run afoul to his definition of the First Amendment. In a meeting with me and three other students, Davis shared that he has overseen the removal of such statements as “Be Gay, Do Crime For Quincy Brinker, who, by disrupting the talk of yet another washed-up academic trying to write Marsha and Sylvia out of Stonewall, reminded us that not even the defunct will be safe if our enemy is victorious. For Feral Pines, last seen by some of her friends throwing rocks at police, by others in an assembly plotting psychic warfare against the fascists, and by others dancing and then defacing some fascist insignia in the moments before her death. For Chris Chitty, who would surely use this opportunity to insult the insulters while transmitting some brilliant insight about where we have been and where we are going. For Ravin Myking, whose beauty caused the pastor of a homophobic megachurch to froth at the mouth and declare the arrival of wolves to hunt his sheep, and caused the sheep to fall to the ground, speaking in tongues and praying for their absent god. For Scout and the fires of memory. For Vlad, ai ferri corti! For all our friends on the other side, we display these reflections. Ten years ago, we were seized by a frenzied spirit and, in a trancelike state, received a set of ten weapons for a war we were only just result the words to narrate .
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