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I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach—as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle. That means that feminism doesn’t belong to anyone in particular.
Angela Y. Davis • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
The man who discovered media codes and how to resist them
“In an ideal world, queer, trans, and nonbinary people wouldn’t have to perform in order to survive. But we do what we have to (and a few of us really love it!). sometimes the only ways that those of us who refuse the binaries and templates of our times can be understood is within the role of a performer - as goddess, witch, entertainer, or muse.
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Labubus, The Bell Jar and tampons: the ‘performative male’ attracts attention
theguardian.com“Drag artist don’t always want to become activists, we often become so accidentally. gay bars, balls and private parties may start as sites of escapist utopia and fantasy, but they cane become revolutionary in the face of arrest, violence, and erasure.”
Sasha Velour, The Big Reveal
even the "straight" women are doing something that can arguably be seen as pretty "queer"
Kristina Busse • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays
“A gay man loves and desires other men, and a lesbian desires and loves other women,” explains Sky Gilbert, a drag queen. “This defines the existential state of being gay. If there is no such thing as ‘male’ or ‘female,’ the entire self-definition of gay identity, which we have spent generations seeking to validate and protect from bigots,
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