“LALA SHANGHAI”
Medium: Zine
Tools: 35mm Minolta, Kodak Gold400, CineStill 400, Fuji Superior
Location: Shanghai, China, Fall 2023
This 28-page zine employs film photography and fashion to investigate the varying couplings of masculinities and femininities - T and P roles - employed by Lalas* across time and space, questioning the politics of queer ambiguity, androgyny, and gender non-conformity as it relates to our path towards subverting heteronormativity.
Inspired by the use of quasi-documentary and street realism that so sharply defined the 90s queer film scenes of China and Hong Kong, I emphasize the importance of media that portrays queer lives as intersectional, multifaceted, authentic, and lived.
*vernacular term for Chinese lesbians
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Tools: 35mm Minolta, Kodak Gold400, CineStill 400, Fuji Superior
Location: Shanghai, China, Fall 2023
This 28-page zine employs film photography and fashion to investigate the varying couplings of masculinities and femininities - T and P roles - employed by Lalas* across time and space, questioning the politics of queer ambiguity, androgyny, and gender non-conformity as it relates to our path towards subverting heteronormativity.
Inspired by the use of quasi-documentary and street realism that so sharply defined the 90s queer film scenes of China and Hong Kong, I emphasize the importance of media that portrays queer lives as intersectional, multifaceted, authentic, and lived.
*vernacular term for Chinese lesbians
Read the e-version