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Meetings with Ana Milić

• her reseach on post-yugoslav queer and migrant oral histories
• the things we've discussed in the interview
• resources she shared with me:

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Research questions

• What is the language of queerness in the Balkans?
• How could one dig up what had already been there, queer and hiding in plain sight, to counter the narrative of queerness being something that is inherently Western?
• * More broadly how can one counter homonationalist queer narratives that posit the west as a the source of queerness?

3D explorations

Liminality
Previous readings that posit the Balkans as a place that could not self identify, but is liminal because it was identified by larger global forces.
Pool

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  Liminal pool final render

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  rendered in eeve instead of cycles (which takes ages but it's really good)

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  Some errors along the way

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  Unfinished render in cycles

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  First render

I wanted to get a bit better at making scenes (lighting, textures, etc) so I modeled and rendered a pool.
I followed this tutorial by intranet whom I love >>>[1]
Airport

Pioner dool

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The history

So far I've looked into:

• Pagan / pre-christian times
• Ottoman empire times
• Yugoslavia (from kingdom to socialist republic to dispersal)
• Post-yugo time

Thought
So far I've found quite a bit which seems to be a layer upon layer of blame. During the ottoman empire, queer practices were seen as a violent ottoman legacy, that was enforced through rape and abduction. In the beginning stages of communist uprising, queerness was perceived as a sign of the bad influence of the bourgeoisie. As far as the pre-christian era, there is little to nothing to be found on this topic. Generally, records are scarce, and the Balkans was never a region preoccupied with record-keeping (unlike colonial powers).
So what now, when I've combed through, and mostly found violence and blame of larger forces for the existence of people who are everywhere around the world.
There is also something to be said about the fact that queer as an identity came way later, in the past it was often seen as a thing that happens, rather than a thing that you are, an identity..

Tangents

• liminality on deciding on a region