CMST 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Alternative Culture, Queen Bees And Wannabes
29 Mar 2017
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Gender is performative, but that does not mean we are performing gender, as in playing a role. Gender is real and inextricably tied to both our biological sex/genitalia and to our sexual desire. But all of these may be less stable and natural than we think! Our gender identities are stories about ourselves that we tell in the. Movements and decisions we make every moment. The 1990 drag-ball documentary [paris is burning] assayed the lives of poor, largely black gay men who built an alternative culture one with a language that would seem to borrow heavily from . Shanequa from around the way. " and the white gay men i"ve met who most frequently speak, or tweet, in a faux-urban patois aren"t trying [to] mimic any real-life black woman. They"re mimicking gay men from another era, who found a way to forge an identity amid difficult circumstances.
