Lucid Noon Sunset Blush Film Analysis

Lucid Noon Sunset Blush (2016) is a film about the community and culture of queers in a small town (Texas). Not only does it show and describe some of the challenges of being gay, but it also goes into detail of the challenges one faces who is also “Black or Brown.” “The knowledge of how to survive within capitalism comes the awakening of ideas of queerness, gender, feminism, and sex work.” Living in an area that is mainly white rich people, those who are the minority need to find ways to survive with such inequality. This film also points out body shaming, and shows the reality of sex. Paris is Burning (1990) relates to Lucid Noon Sunset Blush because it also shows the hard life of being gay and black. This film shows the world through the eyes of Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, and Dorian Corey, which describes their experiences living in poverty, dealing with racism, and “house” culture. These films show how much

It is very alarming how others can be so cruel just because they see someone as “different.” “Of course in a world that aligns life with the normal and relegates the abnormal to the space of death, normality is hard to argue against.” However, groups like INCITE! Women of Color against inassimilable, “shows the connections between interpersonal violence and larger systems of state violence.” Stanley talks about seeing violence as individual acts versus normative and normalizing structuring of public pain. In other words, choosing which act to publish for “public pain.” More than often you will see acts of violence being published on tv that are against minorities and for the majority, you will not see them talking about acts of violence against those who are queer because being queer is frowned upon in our society. This type of structural violence helps support the ongoing of inequality and violence queers, and queers of color face