ENGL 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Drag Queen, Heterojunction, Heteronormativity
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If not, why not? (use either/both the film and. In this subversive world, white wealthy femininity is still the goal. There idealization of whiteness isn"t just an idealization of beauty, but what comes along with it house, cars, etc. Butler doesn"t talk enough about race: drag plays with gender norms that are symbolic, but there"s a material reason we"re doing it, kinship: one of the most material products that comes out of drag communities and pib. We can talk about the symbolic nature of drag, but the kinship structure is something that is produced by drag and exists in the world and does good. But it"s also very positive: ballroom kinship as reading of hetero-bio-determined family , corey: [finding] a flaw and exaggerate[ing] it , butler: "reading" means taking someone down, exposing what fails to work (butler. Middle class white families were told to reproduce and help the country. Latina and aa women were stopped from being able to reproduce.