(un)masking

When I first learned about unmasking, I thought I'd have the issue stitched up in a year, maybe two. I didn't realize it would be an undertaking on the same scope as making sense of my gender. I'm still figuring it out. I can't make myself be more neurotypical or more cis. All I can do mask my non-binary and autistic traits, but that comes with dire costs. How does one move forward then? When the artifice of the social performance is raised to the surface and pushed to the extremes of campiness. It's no longer an acquiescence to the social norms. It's satire. It's an expression that belongs to the person wearing the mask. ----- The wonderful Spanish subtitles were translated by Jzeth with help from Dashre, Kelly Rey de gatos, Apricot, and Angie. Thank you! ----- *The music used in this video is:* - _Fairy's Fountain_, Majora's Mask - Ravaged Rustworks, _Hey! Pikmin_ - Beyond the Waves of Time - Castle in The Mist, _Ico_ - Rigby's Place, _The Wolf Among Us_ - Precinct 41 Major Crime Unit, _Disco Elysium_ - Tender Strength, _Genshin Impact_ *The VRChat worlds shown in this video are:* - 雨見る旋律~Melody of the Rain~, _sizimityper_ - Clock Tower, _Islana_ - Electrical Lines ｜ 「送電線, _ComfyPillow_ - Underwater School, _Nemuchiko_ - Train Alpha, _Zippin_ - Es' Library, _Roadcrosser_ - Shadow Factory, _emymin_ - Rest in Space, _rakurai5_ - COSMOS, _RwaBhineda_ - shadow of the colossus - forest, _αRαβ απԃყ's_ - Qoo H Bocuma International Airport, _hdorriker_ - Omegle VR, _Puppet~_ - A journey［v1․6․1], _Golaxi_ - Sky˸ Children of the Light, _Vonast_ - Yayoi rainy season, _猫屋敷やよい_ - Elven Castle, __Asylum_ - Cosmic JellyFish, _Len2_ - Sushi Aquarium 淡水棟, _long-potato_ - Oneshot World, _JIS_Hobbit_ - Moria, _Fewiix_ - Ruin Town （AFK）, _Satosiさん_ - No matter where you go‚ everyone's connected․ （Serial Experiments Lain）, _Hayase Asakura_ - The End of Evangelion, _Floober_ - Graffiti World, _Firetaker_ - Hideout - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, _Undertrash_ - Magnetize, _Juice․․․_ - Gala Ballroom, _Air In_ ----- *Citations:* - [1]: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDFUgsE6odU&t=1049) *is the world getting worse?* 17:29, _Savannah Brown._ - [2]: *Psychiatry beyond the brain: externalism, mental health, and autistic spectrum disorder,* _Tom Roberts, Joel Krueger & Shane Glackin._ This paper's approach to externalizing autism is what kicked off my thinking about gender/social norms as public infrastructure that has accessibility shortcomings. It's pretty dense, but worth a gander if you're into that kind of thing! ᵃⁿᵈ ʷᶦᵗʰ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᵒᶠᶠᵉʳᶦⁿᵍ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵒʳᵏˢ ᶜᶦᵗᵉᵈ ˢᵉᶜᵗᶦᵒⁿ, ʷᵉ ᵖʳᵃʸ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ʳᵉᵃᵖᵉʳ ᵇᵒᵐᵇᵉʳᵐᵃⁿ ᵖᵃˢˢᵉˢ ᵗʰᶦˢ ʰᵘᵐᵇˡᵉ ʸᵒᵘᵗᵘᵇᵉ ᵛᶦᵈᵉᵒ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ----- *Chapters:* 00:00 intro 00:49 how a mask is made 04:21 how a mask is (un)made 07:19 masks all the way down 09:13 m̶a̶s̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ as graffiti 10:41 m̶a̶s̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ as costume & disguise 12:05 masking as a shield 12:51 outro