theatrademics

A portmanteau of theatre as academic. Understanding that an innate part of any critical practice is creative, and any creative practice is critical and rooted not in a modern hegemonized form of colonial knowledge but in the implicit and ever expanding forms of knowledge, feeling, spirit, art, emotion, communication, and other various pathways of learning, unlearning, and expanding one’s horizons. 

pressductions:

A portmanteau of press and productions. This means that our work spans a spectrum of creative areas—it also forefronts the idea of the literary within the act of creation and the importance of literature in artistic spaces. 

eco-tantric:

Eco-erotic was defined by Sylvie Shaw as “The intimate and embodied connection with nature” as a way to reclaim the eco-erotic, curing the disconnect between wider Western culture and nature itself. 

Eco-tantric is about the innate pleasures of the universe, the natural earth and spirits and elements that are already in sync with your own pleasure— and how autonomy, freedom, and independence, and sensual possibilities stem from this synchronization. It is an active term that views sensualities and sex as a state of consciously centring and re-centring not only with one’s physical body but with bodies of nature, elements, weather, spirits, energies  and emotions.  

boytears 

(stylized as above)

definition: The idea that queer sights of ‘overflow’ and ‘water’ especially in masculine and other gender non-conforming spaces are sights of profound remembrance, change, tenderness, and transformation. Tears, and the embodiment of tears become a type of record-keeping. 

The idea that in the world of  a corporate ‘girlifcation’ of everything, being the unsmiling, undocile little boy (not as gender persay, but positionality– for other examples see our definition of B.O.Y. for Terza Rima i.e. are you beautiful, are you original, are you filled with yearning?) who weeps for others is inherent to the survival of other and all queer identities that do not fit a neat, shiny packaged narrative. 

EX: The importance of weeping in Shakespearean texts and how this might unlock sights of previous queer erasure. The importance of seeing ‘boy players’ in Shakespeare’s times not as accessible labour or vessels for great works, but young and queer bodies that had the ability to change and create new pathways of queerness with the rhetoric of their actions, as well as a myriad of gender presentations (i.e. think about Anne Carson’s idea of boyhood if this is really confusing.)

n; my boytears keep his memory evergreen… 

boyspeak

(as transcribed from a poem)

The aestheticism of speaking as a queer boy; to speak in a way that is the apex of beauty, truth, love, and freedom; to ascribe a certain je ne se quois to the highest homoerotic tendencies of eloquence; to opulently sigh and drape against the sofa, then declare…!; how one’s posture, dress, and way of speaking might change in the library if they saw another beautiful boy pass by; as if the instant of intuition could identify all your boyperfection to him; to call out to him how a siren calls to the bravest willing to be drown; to the history and myths filled with beautiful boys since ancient times, all with pearls in their precocious, loquacious mouths; quotes, emotions, ideas, longings, grandiose power to use at whim; to charm, to command, to break hearts, and of course, to mend them; to unmask and undress the wounds of another boy, man, or dear creature; to be vulnerable and intimate and despairing in a gorgeous way: to be dazzling in his ability to speak his own special boyspeak;

Use it in a sentence: Boyspeak so elegant you sing that boy right back home to you.

lovegrief 

(stylized as above)

Original appearance: Nisus and Euraylous At The Louvre by West Ambrose

Definition: our grief might be endless, but it is only because it is attached [like connective tissue or flowing blood] to our love; inexplicability unseperable— where does looking at sights of these in history change how we view mourning and grief, and what do they say about centuries of queer love?

Definition: your eyes were very tired reading chapter OF 

n; our lovegrief without end  

v; we lovegrief without end 

adj; his dark, lovegrief filled curls, trembling without end

adv; I sang, lovegriefedly, of their beauty, without end