{"id":9281,"date":"2025-01-13T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/?page_id=9281"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:51:27","slug":"seminarseries-fall2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/seminarseries-fall2025\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Work Is Not For You&#8221; Reframing Deviance in Queer and Two-Spirit Portraiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Tuesday, October 28<\/strong> |\u00a0 5:30 &#8211; 6:45 PM<br \/>\n<strong>Tesla Cariani: &#8220;This Work Is Not For You&#8221; <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Reframing Deviance in Queer and Two-Spirit Portraiture<br \/>\nLocation:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> WGS Sitting Room (704 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 102)<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This talk traces the visual resonances among Catherine Opie\u2019s infamous photograph\u00a0<i>Self-Portrait\/Pervert<\/i>, Dayna Danger\u2019s contemporary series\u00a0<i>Masks<\/i>, and Ryan Young\u2019s body of work titled\u00a0<i>Niizh Manidoowag<\/i> to argue that each of these artists foreground kink aesthetics as a means of speaking back to their respective necropolitical and cultural moments. Drawing on queer theory, affect theory, and Indigenous studies, I discuss how Opie, Danger, and Young utilize photography to grapple with questions of sensation, exposure, relationality, and consent outside of dominant social scripts. Ultimately, this talk demonstrates the value of creative praxis in crafting queered forms of pleasure and kinship in conversation with the structures of violence they seek to resist.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Co-sponsored by:\u00a0<\/strong>LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty &amp; Staff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wgs\/files\/2025\/10\/Seminar-Series-Fall-25-1-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"505\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9541 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/files\/2025\/10\/Seminar-Series-Fall-25-1-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/files\/2025\/10\/Seminar-Series-Fall-25-1-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/files\/2025\/10\/Seminar-Series-Fall-25-1-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/files\/2025\/10\/Seminar-Series-Fall-25-1-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/files\/2025\/10\/Seminar-Series-Fall-25-1-464x600.png 464w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/files\/2025\/10\/Seminar-Series-Fall-25-1.png 1545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, October 28 |\u00a0 5:30 &#8211; 6:45 PM Tesla Cariani: &#8220;This Work Is Not For You&#8221; Reframing Deviance in Queer and Two-Spirit Portraiture Location: WGS Sitting Room (704 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 102) This talk traces the visual resonances among Catherine Opie\u2019s infamous photograph\u00a0Self-Portrait\/Pervert, Dayna Danger\u2019s contemporary series\u00a0Masks, and Ryan Young\u2019s body of work titled\u00a0Niizh Manidoowag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5754,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9281\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}