Other Reflexes: Diana Georgiou Interviewed
Perhaps we need something different to bring about an absolute rejection {of the male gaze], one that would really make it impossible to be consumed. And I can’t say that I have the answer to that. I think queer people have fought very hard to enter fields that were otherwise foreclosed to us: from healthcare to politics to mainstream television. But this strategy of inclusion has historically, and inevitably, led to our identities being co-opted by capitalism and then resold back to us at a higher price, while also evacuating our identities of any political intent. Not all queer lives benefit from the politics of representation, and neither will their social conditions ameliorate on the basis of glossy TV entertainment. I have always been far more aligned with the politics of refusal, indetermination, and abolition, rather than the idea that equal participation and representation will transform the unjust systems that have excluded us in the first place.
Bridget Penney interviews Diana Georgiou.