Lesbians In The Media

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“Lesbians In The Media” is a commentary piece about how lesbians and lesbian relationships are depicted in various media in our society. It was a part paper mâché sculpture- part research project. For the research side, I gathered evidence of lesbianism in history as well as modern depictions of queerness and sex. One of the excerpts was a text from ancient Greece, a satirical prose called Affairs of The Heart. There was also more historical evidence of ancient lesbian sex in an ancient jade double-ended toy from Japan. It was a commentary about how lesbians and their identities are sexualized and twisted into something for the male gaze. We are not represented as simply people in love and the domestic things that come with that as straight couples often are, we are salacious and exotic and sexy. We become objects of desire. The sculpture and its context stands as a resistance against this and a reclamation of it by seeking to remove men and their gaze from the lesbian experience.