Over the course of this semester, I have curated dimsumdyke to be a queer counterpublic that showcases my best writing and art pieces. The blog is intended to act as a platform that showcases a marginalized experience from an intersectional lens. Readers of the blog, aside from those in or instructing PUB 101, are imagined […]
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Queer Counterpublics
The internet has afforded me access to spaces that center queer experiences. These spaces allow me to fully embody and indulge in my queerness. I am a part of a multitude of trans, non-binary, lesbian and generally queer groups on Facebook; my Instagram and Twitter followings are largely queer and I follow many queer folx […]
♥ LB + SM ♥
A very homo gif for my girlfriend ♥
PRINTS 4 SALE
This week I worked on building my art Instagram. Over the course of 3 days, I posted 3 photos a day from my series GIRLS!. Once the entire series was online, I promoted the page on my main Instagram. My friends also promoted the account for me. Shortly after my friends and I promoted the […]
Managing Marketability
After our lecture, in which our guest speaker, Trevor Battye, highlighted that I could monetize my website by selling prints of my photography, I decided that I would follow through with this idea. I had already contemplated selling my art, and getting the external unbiased validation from a stranger motivated me to take action. As […]
Peer Review of Blog “My films Blog”
My films Blog‘s homepage opens with a large image of a man in a movie theater. This image takes up nearly all the space above the fold, except for the margin at the bottom in which the main menu is situated. This design choice could pose problems depending on the image used, but it works […]
Fine-tuning
As I decided last week that no edits needed to be made to my blog, I figured that I should try harder this week to figure out what can be improved. I went through individual posts and reformatted some of them, adding the PDFs to the top of the post rather than the bottom (on […]
Law of Attraction
As a bonus feature of Intersectional Apocalypse‘s 2018 issue “Digital Dialogues: Navigating Online Spaces” a zine called Tender is included. On page 5, this zine features a personal narrative and a blackout poem that I created.
Misgendering and Mobile Mindfulness
I received peer feedback this week, all of which was positive. While it was nice to know that my blog was coming along nicely, it was difficult to make any edits to it without any constructive criticism. I took it upon myself to critique my own blog according to the critiques I provided to my […]
