The Limits of Bio-family--dissing identity
What alternatives to "family" and the social can texts like Paris is burning and Disidentifications offer us?
How does Paris make us feel?
we can trace the roots of queer visibility to queer of color practice in the ball culture 80s new york
It unwhite washes queer culture
(the Love, Simon" mode of sanitizing queerness and whitewashing same-sex desire)
from Munoz: "this move is not uncommon; it is basically understood as 'it's a white thing' dismissal of queerness" (9)
How does ball culture ask us to rethink oppression:
Opulence! The idea of putting on and approximating white america "realness"--it's saying i could be that if the structure would allow me
i would also say that the performance of white america is in line with "disidentifications": "a surivival strategy that works within and outside the dominant public sphere simultaneously" (5).
They talk about winning as like their version of the oscars;
key vocab from the film (we import from from Drag Race and twitter; we lose history and context; how the discourse/language use becomes appropriated by cis white gay men?); if your subculture becomes your culture, then what happens to subculture and where does BIPOC culture/invention go, esp in late stage capitalism
They are essentially barred from that level of appreciation on such a large scale that they've created their own sense of fame and community (Emilee in chat)
creating new spaces for intimacy and safe spaces and SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Drag/Ball moms
Ball/drag families
if the bio family is violent, then new families/found families! House "mothers" to create structures of support! The mutual support. How one of the mother's says she does makeup for one and hair for another,
Vogue
SHade
REad
Realness