"The ancient battle cry was 'We're Queer and We're Here.'
Now, it's a marketing scheme. It's a place to come and shop."
by Rhiannon Smith & Gretchen Trupp
Our video project surveys an area of the city of Philadelphia called the Gayborhood, which is located in Washington Square West covering about 9 blocks, and which has rainbow street signs and crosswalks in addition to rainbow flags on many establishments. There are a variety of buildings in the Gayborhood, ranging from subsidized housing to historical bookstores to LGBTQ-specific health clinics to luxury apartments, restaurants, stores, and clubs. While a variety of different people live in the area, its original intended purpose was as an inclusive neighborhood space with a higher queer population* and to offer support and solidarity for these persons.
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by Amy Giacomucci, Aurora Martinez del Rio, & Richard Monari
Watch the Video.Finely a Knitting Party.
We visited Finely a Knitting Party two times. During our first visit, we filmed a Saturday afternoon knitting class run by Cathy Finley, the owner of the shop. We photographed the space and conversed with the attendees, both on and off camera. At this time, we chose to collect footage of community-driven interactions interspersed with occasional questions from us regarding their current projects and past experiences with knitting. Then, in our second visit, we interviewed Cathy about her experience as the owner of the knitting shop and as a member of the knitting community. The physical space of the knitting shop and the community within it are tied together to form a linguistic landscape. A linguistic landscape is the interaction of different language communities within a physical space.
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Main AuthorJamie A. Thomas is a linguistic anthropologist and digital media producer. Her forthcoming book Zombies Speak Swahili is all about the undead, videogames, and viral Black language. She teaches at Santa Monica College and CSU Dominguez Hills. Archives
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