rather than carving out a particular space or interest, queer tibet’s name was chosen to spotlight a way of thinking about, looking at and transforming the world.

queer tibet shares thoughts and questions, often related to something queer or tibetan, sometimes both, sometimes neither.  the author has no prior experience blogging, and so will try and make this an interesting and appropriate blog, rather than never-ending thoughts that turn into essays.

“On the one hand, truth is produced, induced, and extended according to the regime in power.  On the other, truth lies in between all regimes of truth.  As the fable goes, What I Tell You Three Times Is True.  To question the image of a historicist account of documentary as a continuous unfolding does not necessarily mean championing discontinuity; and to resist meaning does not necessarily lead to its mere denial.  Truth, even when “caught on the run,” does not yield itself either in names or in (filmic) frames; and meaning should be prevented from coming to closure at what is said and what is shown.  Truth and meaning: the two are likely to be equated with one another.  Yet, what is put forth as truth is often nothing more than a meaning.  And what persists between the meaning of something and its truth is the interval, a break without which meaning would be fixed and truth congealed.  This is perhaps why it is so difficult to talk about it, the interval.”

Trinh T. Minh-ha, “The Totalizing Quest of Meaning” in When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics. (Routledge, 1991: 30.)