The Project of Becoming: The LGBT Movement’s Elastic Resistance in Post-Soviet Countries

Title

The Project of Becoming: The LGBT Movement’s Elastic Resistance in Post-Soviet Countries

Subject

LGBT rights and Post-Soviet Contemporary History

Description

What began as a digital anthropological project, rhizomed into a project not contained to one specific discipline. ‘The Project of Becoming’ critically investigates the multivalent uses of maps in exposing the contemporary LGBT community of post-socialist states in Eastern Europe. As full citizenship being denied due to their sexual orientation, this purportedly ‘off the grid’ community becomes a case study exposing the dilemma of collecting data while remaining ethical to the community one is trying to render in the name of research. This project retraces the multiple research circuits used in coming to this conclusion. It is through these taxonomies a recycling of the term Queer Space is ultimately reanimated and shown crossing the multiple territorial divisions among: digital technology, the humanities and public displays of activism, where each becomes sites of resistance for critical engagement.

Creator

Scott Valentine

Date

2001-2015

Contributor

Scott Valentine

Language

English

Type

Multi-Media mapping methods

Collection Items

EU Pardoning of Violence Towards LGBT Community
Using the software Screenflow, I was able to track the real time approach to document my workflow. It is in these digital dérives I collapse and combine the internet with the physical, questioning its daily function and usage as a 'thing' we inhabit.…

Internet Dérive: A Condensed History of Communism and Homosexuality
Using the software Screenflow, I was able to track the real time approach to document my workflow. It is in these digital dérives I collapse and combine the internet with the physical, questioning its daily function and usage as a 'thing' we inhabit.…

Internet Dérive: Romania
Using the software Screenflow, I was able to track the real time approach to document my workflow. It is in these digital dérives I collapse and combine the internet with the physical, questioning its daily function and usage as a 'thing' we inhabit.…

Internet Dérive: Poland
Using the software Screenflow, I was able to track the real time approach to document my workflow. It is in these digital dérives I collapse and combine the internet with the physical, questioning its daily function and usage as a 'thing' we inhabit.…

Internet Dérive: Croatia
Using the software Screenflow, I was able to track the real time approach to document my workflow. It is in these digital dérives I collapse and combine the internet with the physical, questioning its daily function and usage as a 'thing' we…

Map of Warsaw Pride Route, 2014
This abstracted map was created by reviewing hours of footage from the Warsaw Pride Parade. During research it became apparent these routes are not publicly distributed online leading one to speculate this removal from the public domain could be for…

This diagram is the data companion to the video 'A Condensed History of Homosexuality and Communism'. This diagram demonstrates a very simple path chosen, pointing to the method one could take in exploring this topic. Rather than examining the full…

Digital Dérive:  the Story of Le Madame, a Gay Bar that Was Not There
In the spring of 2006 the Warsaw police shut down a beloved gay bar named Le Madame, but rather than accepting this fate, it's patrons organized a sit in which lasted several days. Several activists and journalists have suggested this point in…

Digital Dérive Navigating LGBT Related Issues Throughout the Post-Soviet Region
This diagram is the data companion to the video 'EUs Pardoning of Violence Related to the LGBT Community'. This diagram demonstrates one particular path you can take when navigating the internet to conduct research. Each URL acts as a coordinates in…
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