By Riccardo Meroni for ODDA Korea July 2024
Roberta Console (Fashion Editor/Stylist), Marco Minunno (Hair Stylist), Greta Agazzi (Makeup Artist)
do you want to have sex with me i promise it will be totally weird and unsatisfying maybe we can make it a whole thing
“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets.
Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”
–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life / Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot / Donna Tartt, The Secret History
So when trans people take chemicals that radically change their body in order to live happier and freer lives it’s fine. but when I, Henry Jekyll—