Dakota Quin is a independant writer featuring in Pedestrian TV, Soft Stir Magazine and the documentary Unspeakable.
ESSAYS
How to Spot a Fuck Boy - Pedestrian TV
This is a self reflective piece on intimacy and dating. I’ve dated weird, maybe you’ve dated weird, maybe we’ve dated eachother weird, hi!
The article dips it’s toe into the underpinnings of the Unspeakable documentary. A film about rediscovering sexual liberation after sexual violence.
A Hyperproductive City - Soft Stir Magazine, Issue #1
I spent much of my time writing this essay reflecting on my years as an athlete, understanding my body thorugh the squinted eye of the bidomedical model, understanding this model as a product of our broader political structure and understanding it as a jockstrap for this patriarchal city. With the leftover hole of negative space, it hopefully draws out the silhouette of the anti-capitalist body. The rest of that silhouette is filled in with my after athlete explorations of gender, body diversity and disability.
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The body rushes to the next heartbeat to keep rhythmically in time with the city, Sydneys fast pace is a stimulant, and slowing is our comedown. The bodies that inhabit this city are fuelled and trough fed with door to door fast food, short deadlines, long working hours and to do lists that spill a month into the future. The endless activity is a thrill, our vessels become a bathtub of stress hormones and adrenaline for our fight or flight system to thrive in. This speed is our fodder, it is an energy reservoir, it sends gusts of power and accolades of achievement our way whilst giving us practical reason to run further and faster away from ourselves. It convinces us that we can satiate our spirits one take away container at a time or, 3 caps at a time, it is a food that keeps us hungry. It is powerful and perfect until we stop, or until the body stops.
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I spent much of my time writing this essay reflecting on my years as an athlete, understanding my body thorugh the squinted eye of the bidomedical model, understanding this model as a product of our broader political structure and understanding it as a jockstrap for this patriarchal city. With the leftover hole of negative space, it hopefully draws out the silhouette of the anti-capitalist body. The rest of that silhouette is filled in with my after athlete explorations of gender, body diversity and disability.
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The body rushes to the next heartbeat to keep rhythmically in time with the city, Sydneys fast pace is a stimulant, and slowing is our comedown. The bodies that inhabit this city are fuelled and trough fed with door to door fast food, short deadlines, long working hours and to do lists that spill a month into the future. The endless activity is a thrill, our vessels become a bathtub of stress hormones and adrenaline for our fight or flight system to thrive in. This speed is our fodder, it is an energy reservoir, it sends gusts of power and accolades of achievement our way whilst giving us practical reason to run further and faster away from ourselves. It convinces us that we can satiate our spirits one take away container at a time or, 3 caps at a time, it is a food that keeps us hungry. It is powerful and perfect until we stop, or until the body stops.
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Sydney vs. Sydney - Yeah Nah Yeah 2018
The floor is covered in stilettos, feet braced in the forever point of a ballerina. There are ironed out colours, shirts and shoulders stiffened against gravity, then there is us, smeared lipstick, rash vests and a curiousity for the cultural modified body. This peice is an investagative reflection of a public performance artwork, entering the Ivy Pool Club, a venue of Sydney’s florid nightlife.
The floor is covered in stilettos, feet braced in the forever point of a ballerina. There are ironed out colours, shirts and shoulders stiffened against gravity, then there is us, smeared lipstick, rash vests and a curiousity for the cultural modified body. This peice is an investagative reflection of a public performance artwork, entering the Ivy Pool Club, a venue of Sydney’s florid nightlife.