TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

The idea I wish to articulate in the coming period, primarily concerns the expansion of queer whose aim is to explore connections between queer and extinct animals, most of which perished during the colonial expeditions of white men. 

What led me to frame the idea in this way are: the aesthetic-visual appearance of these animals and the fact that they are no longer among us. The first refers to their extraordinary appearance compared to species familiar to us, whose presence signaled the development of organisms, confirming links to dinosaurs. These transformations validate evolution as a process of (re)adaptation, which was violently taken from many species, preventing us from observing and understanding what kinds of (un)expected transformations might have occurred in the meantime. 

The second speaks to the unforgivable desire for dominance over space and the elimination of life forms considered less valuable, drawing parallels between human, in this case, queer identities, and non-human, extinct animal species. This opens a space for the decolonisation of adopted binary norms, a critique of imposed anthropocentrism, and oppressive heteronormativity.

The proposed topic seeks to resist the Western perception of the world. Through this resistance, I aim to uncover queer pleasures, the joy of existence, and, in doing so, foster the acceptance and recognition of one’s own gender identity and sexual orientation, which must not be subjected to the fetishisation of the white male gaze - a gaze that served as a motive for the killing of animals for collectors to marvel at.

Through new imaginaries and attempt to equalise the lives of living beings without creating distinctions, by exploring insufficiently studied domains, I aim to generate key insights that weave ecological, aesthetic, and socio-political threads together to expand the concept of queer in its perpetual unfinishedness.