Ships/Boats/Shipwreck/Maroon/Pirates/Unmoored/Harbor/Sink/Yacht

<aside> 💡 Analysis - “Shipping” culture - usually shipping people together that aren’t actually an item, grew in popularity in the early 2000s

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

Being a sailor/pirate was a way for queer people to live out more authentic lives, away from society’s expectations on land. An example of this can be found in the story of Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Here’s a Youtube video describing the LGBT history of being at sea:

Queer as Folklore - Episode 4: Mermaids

Mary Lacy, an eighteenth-century sailor, cross-dressed as a man and was thought to have queer relationships with women. At 33 years old, she published a book titled “The History of the Female Shipwright” (1773).

https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2013/08/mary-lacy-history-of-female-shipwright.html

https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/research/marylacyweb-pdf/

Emily Dickinson’s poem “Wild Nights” describes herself using the metaphor of a ship and her muse as the harbour that she would like to “moor” in (sexual connotations of penetration)

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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life: In 2013, Taylor describes the aesthetic of her Nashville condo as “Tim Burton-Alice in Wonderland-pirate ship-Peter Pan.”