Motive by Negation Studio
Anonymous asked:
Do you have something against drag queens?
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dromoka answered:
no of course not why would i have anything against cis gay men dressing up as women and illegitimizing my identity? Its not like because of them my mom can’t see me as anything other than one of them because their presence overshadows actual trans women’s lives. Its not like they actively erase trans women’s identities like that of Marsha P Johnson and claim they were drag queens. its not like they get to wear my identity as a dress when they want to and not experience any of the struggles of trans women, again illegitimizing my identity.
I fucking hate drag queens lmao.
Honesty, where do I begin with this tragedy. I’m not going to include the rest of the comments because they’re ugly and I’m tired.
I need you white women, you white queers, to understand the history of drag before you decide to decry it. You all clamor about “protecting ~poc~ at all costs” but rarely do you ever critically engage with our histories, which can be seen here and in the white feminist/queer demonization of drag culture in the west.
Drag is not intrinsically an attack on your identity as a woman, as a white person. I hate to break it to you, but the world does not begin and end on the backs of white identity. The drag culture you know absolutely nothing about was primarily pioneered by working class black and latin@ gay and transgender people as early as the 1940′s and earlier. It was, and still is, and will continue to be, despite all of your ahistorical rage, a space and a practice that served self expression, safety, and a form of self-employment for these communities since it was impossible for black and latin@ lgbt people, especially black and latina trans women, to maintain typical jobs. Storme Delarverie, the black lesbian Stonewall veteran, used to perform in drag as an entertainer to produce a living for herself since she was in poverty. Marsha P. Johnson, the black trans woman you and the rest of your detached white queer ilk liken yourselves to in the most grotesque, self-serving and voyeuristic ways possible as though she’s your personal political pawn and not someone who threatened the white supremacist LGBT hegemony you all exhibit every single day, made a living performing in drag shows and being a drag queen as she was homeless. Read up on her history before you invoke her name to support your historical revisionism and your anxious attacks on black and latin@ history.
It’s a testament to white queer selfishness that you can get up on your little tumblr platform and proclaim how you hate drag queens while ignoring how mainstream Gay Inc had pilfered the lives and bodies of black and latin@ people who pioneered drag in this part of the world. Critiquing the transmisogyny, misogyny, and so on of drag queens like RuPaul and others who have stolen drag from its origin and have turned it into mainstream Gay Inc fanfare is fine, but the fact that you all believe that this is the entirety of drag culture and therefore demonize it based upon that erroneous assumption is a repulsive display of the white supremacist onslaught upon black and latin@ gay & trans female history.
In other words, get your shit together before you open your mouth, Becky.
I can’t wear these shorts because they’ll call “the wrong kind of attention”? Wow are you admitting that I have a sexuality?? And that it is so new and fragile that one comment or look from a stranger would shatter it?? My thighs have the power to shatter all sexual inhibition, everybody!! Drop your Viagra, abandon your sexual identity, because MY THIGHS ARE OUT BABY
I GOT 10 MINUTES LEFT OF BEING A TEENAGER I GOTTA DO SOMETHING REBELLIOUS UH
guess who just put paper in the non-recycling. nnnnYEHAWH
Looking back on this as a 20 year old, I now realise how utterly irresponsible I behaved. I apologise. I have since removed the paper and put it in the recycling. I hope you can forgive me for my foolish and reckless behaviour. I can assure you it will not happen again. I am disgusted with myself.
the pink print is being released November 24th :)))))))
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