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Record W4416516904 · doi:10.5406/21518009.51.2.15

Thinking-(queerly)-with the Crocus: An a-r-tographic Inquiry

2025· article· en· W4416516904 on OpenAlex
Nafisa Iqbal

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueVisual Arts Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPosthumanist Ethics and Activism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQueerQueer theoryOpenness to experienceUndoingReading (process)Field (mathematics)HomosexualityFeminism

Abstract

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Abstract This essay contends with the absence of a generation of queer elders as a result of the AIDS epidemic, and the resultant loss of guidance and lineages of knowledge for my generation of queer folks. In the course of walking with public art, I encountered a field of crocuses behind the Vancouver AIDS Memorial at Sunset Beach and began to consider this as a message from our queer elders, employing an a-r-tographic disposition that allows for an openness to new sensorial, perceptual, and conceptual connections. By engaging with the queer archives of the HIV In My Day Oral History Project and the alphabet art of the queer typographer and artist Nat Pyper, as well as my own 35mm photography, I investigate the queer pedagogical potential of the crocus in teaching us about community, relationality, and resilience, through the making of images that serve the educative purpose of teaching and being a visual record of the emotional and lived experience of the AIDS epidemic.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.799
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.175
GPT teacher head0.517
Teacher spread0.342 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it