Monday, June 9, 2008

Representing "Outside" Desires


The above is circa 1950 and is from Tunisia. The cartoon represents the gay colonial /gay traveller's desires of being ravaged by "dark peoples" in North Africa. Though circa 1950, the idea, the desire displayed, remains a major fixture within larger gay culture where stereotyped fantasies of Afro Diasporic men coupled with a member of the larger gay community is a never abating staple.

Note: I've purposely censored are the engorged phalli of the Afro Arab men which coincidentally are drawn a great deal larger than the white man's in the fetishistic cartoon.

1 comments:

Danielle said...

That is one deep visual image that encapsulates the complete and total dehumanization of black males.

Twisted fetishism and ooo-che-wally-bang-bang fantasy all rolled into one.