{"id":986,"date":"2021-12-31T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/?post_type=article&#038;p=986"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:25:30","slug":"between-subversion-and-submission-from-paris-is-burning-to-pose-new-york-ball-culture-as-heterotopia","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/article\/between-subversion-and-submission-from-paris-is-burning-to-pose-new-york-ball-culture-as-heterotopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Subversion and Submission: from Paris is Burning to Pose, New York Ball Culture as Heterotopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost three decades span the release of Paris is Burning (1990), Jennie Livingston\u2019s arthouse documentary on the late-1980s New York ballroom scene, and its fictional<br>revisiting in the TV series Pose (2018-21), created by Ryan Murphy and now a global phenomenon thanks to its presence on streaming services. Paris is Burning and Pose have both gone on to be highly successful commercially, and stand as landmark moments of non-white queer visibility. Appearing at critical junctures in the history of racial nonheteronormative sexualties, they have occasioned, in their wake, a rethinking of the epistemological foundations of gender identity and the generic codes underpinning<br>trans representation. As such, these visual texts and the world they represent can be also be read as queer heterotopias \u2014 \u201cother spaces\u201d where dominant values and practices are at once mirrored and challenged \u2014 as they invite both an endorsement and a queering (or \u201ctransing\u201d) of the norms with which they engage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost three decades span the release of Paris is Burning (1990), Jennie Livingston\u2019s arthouse documentary on the late-1980s New York ballroom scene, and its fictionalrevisiting in the TV series Pose (2018-21), created by Ryan Murphy and now a global phenomenon thanks to its presence on streaming services. Paris is Burning and Pose have both gone &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":947,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[680,681,665,682,683],"class_list":["post-986","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ballroom","tag-drag","tag-heterotopia","tag-queer","tag-transgender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}