Over the course of a month, SPEEDRUNHOME.PAGE (2022) presented an HTML/CSS-constructed "speedrun," or super fast entrance-to-exit review, of 31 spaces where one might be reminded of one's own queerness for one reason or another. In its orignal form, this work was meant to be viewed from time to time, set as a viewer-user's browser homepage. Each day, it refreshed set of poetry, images, and found footage that reflected how queerness was mobilized in various spaces of the common day—alongwith the pleasures and discontents—in persuit of finding "home" in that space. At the end, the character was left to climb endlessly in the void, forever climbing. Directly inspired by Ana Anthropy's 2008 video game the Mighty Jill Off, SPEEDRUNHOME.PAGE draws on the Girl in the Tower trope of many popular video games and fantasy stories by inviting viewers to reflect on the pleasure of the process as well as the prize. Is there anything at the top of the tower? Maybe the tower is home? Maybe the home is the climb? What does it mean to reach the top and be cast out again? All these questions are here in little bits and pieces of haiku.

This work was originally comissioned for the exhibition pleasurehome: desiring queer space by Logan Williams.

Created in 2022 by SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY with development support by KT Duffy. Updated in 2026 by SHAWNÉ.