Alana Blakers
Biographic Data
| ID | 121587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alana Blakers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alana |
| FAMILY NAME | Blakers |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-1957-512X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Queer As: A Deep Dive Into Complex Queer Television
As a team working on the ‘Queer As...’ database and audit, we have approached the issue of queer Indigenous representation by pondering the role of all queer representation. The audit focuses first on Indigenous representation, radiating out to include the complexity of identity at large. In doing so, we have discovered systemic similarities, but as is often the case with the colony, we have also discovered ways in which Indigeneity cannot either…
Queer Indigenous screen representation: Beyond a Gift From the Past or a Problem to Be Solved
Indigenous characters on screen have often been positioned as a gift from the past with innate heroic characteristics, or a problem to be solved in the form of the sad Indigenous person who cannot rise above colonial rule. That these archetypes are framed as positive in their representation is at odds with the need to have representations of the complexity of First Nations peoples. With queer Indigenous representation, characters become reduced t…
Queer Indigenous screen representation: Beyond a Gift From the Past or a Problem to Be Solved
Indigenous characters on screen have often been positioned as a gift from the past with innate heroic characteristics, or a problem to be solved in the form of the sad Indigenous person who cannot rise above colonial rule. That these archetypes are framed as positive in their representation is at odds with the need to have representations of the complexity of First Nations peoples. With queer Indigenous representation, characters become reduced t…
Queer As: A Deep Dive Into Complex Queer Television
As a team working on the ‘Queer As...’ database and audit, we have approached the issue of queer Indigenous representation by pondering the role of all queer representation. The audit focuses first on Indigenous representation, radiating out to include the complexity of identity at large. In doing so, we have discovered systemic similarities, but as is often the case with the colony, we have also discovered ways in which Indigeneity cannot either…
Queer Indigenous screen representation: Beyond a Gift From the Past or a Problem to Be Solved
Indigenous characters on screen have often been positioned as a gift from the past with innate heroic characteristics, or a problem to be solved in the form of the sad Indigenous person who cannot rise above colonial rule. That these archetypes are framed as positive in their representation is at odds with the need to have representations of the complexity of First Nations peoples. With queer Indigenous representation, characters become reduced t…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Queer (2 works)