one of us
look at you
One of Us was remotely created in social media platforms like Instagram, Whatsapp and Microsoft Teams which were used to approach and engage with collaborators. Technology permits a greater freedom of expression that is used as a tool by women to construct their social identities that are often censored by their own subjective regulations. Identities are posed online and in alternative spaces through a negotiation of marginal positions. As
such, collaborators can produce very particular ways of getting to know them based on how they choose to regulate their online representations. In alternative spaces, careful decisions are made in terms of disclosure like pronouns in biographies and authentic self-articulations that reflect queer-inclusive sensibilities. These are instances of disidentifications where queer individuals use commodity culture to subvert dominant norms of feminine and masculine identity.
One of Us is constructed as a reader that is performed by how an individual interacts with it. Objects like the mirror, the zine and the screen make us known to ourselves and others based on how we negotiate our identities in these counter-cultural spaces.
An oppositional gaze imagines alternative spaces where we can develop an affinity for embracing the self in a way that might just mobilise communities and build global solidarity.
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