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Performing for the camera : queer migration, sex work, and objecthood
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Abbey, Matthew (2022) Performing for the camera : queer migration, sex work, and objecthood. Visual Studies, 37 (4). pp. 284-295. doi:10.1080/1472586X.2021.1963830 ISSN 1472-586X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2021.1963830
Abstract
This article explores cultural production on queer migrant sex work. More specifically, I critically analyse a photography series by Bradley Secker titled Sexugees and a short documentary film by Manuel Abramovich titled Blue Boy. Despite sex work featuring in many narratives on queer migration, this is often treated as one marginal aspect of broader experiences. Sexugees and Blue Boy take an alternative approach by centring sex work. Instead of relying on tropes of vulnerability, I argue these forms of cultural production rely on objecthood as a sign of political agency to highlight queer migrant subjectivity. Objecthood thus becomes means of not only refusing the necessity of performing as worthy subjects of sexual humanitarianism, but to complicate the relationship between queer migrants and those gazing upon their presence within cultural production.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Secker, Bradley. Sexugees, Abramovich, Manuel. Blue Boy, Gay immigrants, Sexual minorities , Prostitution | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Visual Studies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1472-586X | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 37 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 284-295 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/1472586X.2021.1963830 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | โThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Visual Studies on 13/08/2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1472586X.2021.1963830 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 August 2021 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 February 2023 |
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