My Story: 'Unsubstantial Territory' by Laurie Reynolds
"We melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory." - Virginia Woolf
For this ‘My Story’ commission, Laurie Reynolds has created a photographic zine that confronts the issues of code switching in the LGBTQI+ community.
Members of the LGBTQI+ community constantly adjust how we are presented, learning the language of culturally compatibility, constructed by heteronormativity through the practice of code switching. This project shares my personal experience of code switching and allows me to confront and explore whether code switching is oppressive, a survival technique or part of the queer experience.
Laurie Reynolds