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yuca's avatar

i was just talking to a friend about queerness in fashion! im not going to be able to articulate as well as i’d like but from my interpretation i think the quality ur looking for-the “ugliness” it factor-comes from queerness and in particular from gender-fuckery specifically to white beauty standards. julia and doja exaggerate and push within the codes of acceptable cis woman gender presentation. even when they use elements of what “sexy” is to straight ppl, they use it in a way that alienates and confuses. doja, and Black women in particular, know how to play with fashion and push it forward BECAUSE they are automatically alienated from white beauty standards. their codes of style often playfully upend and distort white beauty standards to honor their Blackness and honor their gender identity in a world that tries to deny them femininity.

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Will Boucher's avatar

This is an amazing read. Love the idea of fashion being a vehicle to expand our relationships with objects—particularly those we don’t find “fashionable.”

When the hammer works and does its job, we don’t think of it as an object. Only when it breaks, we think of what else it can do.

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