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This contribution offers a critical reading of the theme of waste in Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are (2020) as an unexplored motif that encapsulates the evolving restlessness of queer adolescence. As the series unfolds, most teenage characters gradually engage with acts of environmental carelessness without any apparent narrative utility. By formally exposing adolescents littering and wrecking locations, Guadagnino mobilises a tension between the conventional concealment of garbage and non-heteronormative identities. The close-up discusses relationships between space, place and consumption, and critical discourses activated by the prism of waste, from toxic masculinities to the environmental footprint of the television show.

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Wrecking the Lagoon: Reading Waste in We Are Who We Are’s Queer Adolescence

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    2026年

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  • Ilaria Puliti

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This contribution offers a critical reading of the theme of waste in Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are (2020) as an unexplored motif that encapsulates the evolving restlessness of queer adolescence. As the series unfolds, most teenage characters gradually engage with acts of environmental carelessness without any apparent narrative utility. By formally exposing adolescents littering and wrecking locations, Guadagnino mobilises a tension between the conventional concealment of garbage and non-heteronormative identities. The close-up discusses relationships between space, place and consumption, and critical discourses activated by the prism of waste, from toxic masculinities to the environmental footprint of the television show.