(University of Oregon, 2023-06) Brennan, Lily Wai; Lionni, Sylan
How does one hide from the world when you walk through it observed like an animal in a zoo? Meandering through a childhood sited in a rural, conservative, white community, I was continuously faced with nonconsensual moments that highlighted my body as speculative; otherworldly, exotic, an exhibition. I learned very quickly what it meant to be marginalized. When you are displaced in an environment of whiteness, you feel how visible you are in the world. It becomes quickly apparent that you are an outsider. Nothing is thicker than the otherness that reeks out of your apparently abnormal flesh.
In How Do the Visible Hide? A Report on Marginal Identity, posthuman feminism, queer internet culture, adolescence, and immersive illusion collide together to serve as tools for investigating the marginal experience within a predominantly white, American ecosystem.
