Welcome to the new minutes of SAGDA, Pittsburgh's Teen Sexual & Gender Diversity Alliance. SAGDA's job is to give a laid-back conversational space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, transgender, transsexual, intersex, genderqueer, queer, asexual, questioning, straight-allied, and all the other permutations within the spectrum!
We chose the date to the SAGDA "Living History" party. It will be October 11th. The time is still to be determined (what works for you)?
Why call it the "Living History" party? Because while we often read history, we never think of ourselves as the history of the future. Let's change the world! And make art! And read! And dance dance dance!
On the reading tip, one of the portions of our party will be to make a video of us talking about our favorite books and how we're going to take the lessons of those books into the future.
We then watched the music video for Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" (video | lyrics) for our monthly discussion, after reading some interesting biographical information about Katy Perry. SAGDA members felt that the song is way too formulaic, just a catchy pop tune with just enough controversy to make it big. Adding the words "I kissed a girl" to the regular pop standard isn't anything special or interesting. One SAGDA member thought it was like a "gay jingle," while another thought it did anything but put a positive spin on sexual diversity. In the song, kissing girls is "not what good girls do." Does that mean it's only for "bad girls"?
All in all, SAGDA members decided that the video makes no sense. It's just Katy Perry dancing around in nice shoes.
Of course, you can always borrow Katy Perry's One of the Boys from your local library and decide for yourself.
We’ve Moved
8 years ago
3 comments:
Cool style
But nice shoes are... nice.
Ha ha! Honestly, I love nice shoes (and just got a new pair the other day. :-P). I don't think the comment was deriding the enjoyment of nice shoes so much as it was saying how unfortunate it was that the video wasn't using its popular position to say anything new or challenging about sexuality. But if it were, do you think it would even be popular to begin with?
~Joseph
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