Nº 12: “Relational Saphism” in artistic folklore: re-appropriations of “the marginalised” from the performativity of gender.
The marginalisation and active ostracism of certain transgressor collectives of the cisheteropatriarchy system, driven by the socio-economic and cultural conditions of the moment, has spread throughout the length and breadth of our chronologies and geographies. However, we can find in the various branches of artistic production a certain aura of permissiveness regarding the participation of people from these collectives, not without its share of invisibilisation towards certain sectors, such as sapphic women or people under the trans umbrella.
As a result of this monograph, we wish to present the basis for a study that considers the ‘disobedient’ role and the deserved recognition of sapphic people in the art medium, as well as to show and reflect on the diverse mechanisms in which they perform and weave secure networks to reach a point of encounter, conciliation and appropriation of spaces between queer art and the traditional estates seen as the oppressive/antagonistic counterpart.
We observe that it is of utmost importance to grant a fully inclusive and radical gender perspective to domains such as literature, film, art, translation or theatre, as well as to introduce issues such as the creation of safe spaces for artistic production, the role of social struggles, the role of masculinities intertwined with Sapphic subjects, the pigeonholing and subsequent forgetting of artists, the concept of passing and its consequences, or even the rise to stardom and the construction of fame.
In order to build a critical and fair apparatus for all those ‘ahead of their time’ people past, present and future, we have the duty to immerse ourselves in the facts and visualise the cosmos of situations that intermingle to understand the collective Sapphic and queer history, just as we must implement new perspectives that help to build a more inclusive, equitable, critical and pragmatic thinking.
Thematic areas
Proposals are welcome in the following thematic areas:
- Creation of safe spaces, the importance of sapphic networks and their implications in the various artistic disciplines.
- Recovery of artists, collectives and testimonies in oblivion.
- Taking over the traditional artistic gears and setting up mechanisms of Sapphic re-appropriation.
- Reaffirmation of the transgressive role of marginalised collectives in art, as well as their subsequent effect and due homage.
- Strategies for the critical, academic and pedagogical study of queer struggles in art.
For this issue, articles will also be accepted for inclusion in the Varia section if they do not deal exactly with the above-mentioned themes, but do deal with gender studies and art.
All article proposals should be submitted online in the ‘Make a Submission’ section, where you will find all the guidelines for submission and writing.
Deadline for submission according to the journal's instructions: 15th June.
Editorial team issue 12: María Gamero Hidalgo and Jordi Luengo López.
