Tuesday, February 22, 2022

An LGBTRDCST Deconstruction of Gainsborough's BLUE BOY - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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An LGBTRDCST Deconstruction of Gainsborough’s Blue Boy

 

Blue Boy must be examined through the lens

Of neo-post-colonial queer theory

and LGBT hegemonism

Inverted as bourgeois sentimentalism

 

It subverts the trope of trans-feminism

As a patriarchal gesture of scorn

Plasticized in pale iridescent blue

And transgressive in its imposture

 

Or maybe it’s some kid bribed with a shilling

To pose for this picture, however unwilling

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