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Realness--or the day we talk about how gender isn't real (Jennie…
Realness--or the day we talk about how gender isn't real
Judith Butler "Imitation and Gender Insubordination"
Problem?
LGBTQ activism is mainstream seen as civil rights issues. Same-sex marriage; transgender rights
what are the limits of "coming out" narratives
we're being hailed by regulatory regimes? disclosure as greating problems
coming out of the closet isn't necessarily a liberatory mechanism
Methodology?
the inverted sentence structures and syllogisms.
inaccessible language : "efficacious phantasm" (
Evidence
Way Out/Take Away
what do we do with sexuality once it's defined? It's an "imitation"--it's performative
"
gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original
; in fact, it is the kind of imitation the produces the very notion of the original as an
effect
and consequence of the imitation itself" (378) The original claim is that homosexuality is a bad imitation of heterosexuality (Jesse Helms); the original does not exist
How we in 2020 think about sexuality: it's a thing one has? is it fluid? What happens when you make your desires an identity. It's about what/who you want. "looking for confirmation?
pg 380: gender is performance and compulsory
Jose Esteban Munoz
Disidentifications
Disidenticiation: "Dis is the prosess in which the artist reformulates the the actual performativity of his glittering B movie archive, which is to saythat the images that Smith cited were imbued with a oerformativity that surpasses simple fetishization" (x) performances by queers of color offer different relationships to dominant ideologies?
we're talking about making selves, yo. Stregnthen your sense of self as minoritarian subject (5)
Jennie Livingston
Paris is Burning
(1991)
enjoying new vocab: shade, vogue, mop.
smad--Venus Xtravaganza's murder. No thanks at the ending?
Dorian Corey finale (1:20:20): intimacy with close up, raw, show her wiseness, her old queen wisdom the lighting building in the fantasy of less produced, less stylized (like studio 3 point lighting); the no added sound adds to the "truth" of Corey. It's "her"
"Got to be Real" as finale song; bit of a tone shift from the in memory of?
does the documentary not have an advocate bend? The use of "Real" doesn't allow room for critique
"I'll walk when I'm ready to walk" House of Pendavis
Different "houses" with different Mothers: Xtravaganza, Pendavis, Ninja. Mother who helps her drag queensbaby queens. mentorship. Material and physical help. Chosen family
the name of the house and family lines
documentary as showing the life and how to survive/pass in a heteronormative 80s society;
informational/education? Pedagogical?
how do we shoot and edit Venus when we know she's going to be murdered? "Femme Queens" and showing her close ups and grooming. "No blood" If we're being generous, it's about teaching the vulnerabilities/proximity to violence