Building Queer Utopia: A Framework for Collectivity & Creativity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A critical or queer utopia is a space where we can dream radically different potentialities than those dictated to us by the myriad oppressions of daily life. Beyond glimpsing alternative futures, collective spaces, such as hybrid art-social events, centre desire, joy, and curiosity. They can also create room for different modes of being in the world and room to breathe. Although this world is neither utopic nor queer in many regards, it is still possible to make pockets that are both in the here and now, if only fleetingly. I believe queer people are actively fostering such spaces within their intimate social circles and beyond. This experimental research project combines queer theory, qualitative interview data, and the process of making art in group settings to understand how and why 2S/LGBTQIA+ student artists use their creative practices to explore the self and build community. It also offers a foundational framework for future projects in this area—academic, creative, sociopolitical, or a combination thereof. I designed an open-access zine to document the workshop guide, artwork and stories by myself and participants, interview excerpts addressing desirable futures, and some reflections on the project.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".