Yes, this--I actually had them look up the definition of "crip drag" for the scavenger hunt, and almost none of the ones who did really got it (even though they uniformly found the FWD post).
What I would recommend is gently trying to compare this to how people sometimes criticize drag because male-bodied people are performing a particular brand of femininity that might actually reinforce sexism and binary gender paradigms. They are dressing up as a category of people who lack a privilege that they have, even though the fact of dressing up that way may put them at risk in a homophobic and sexist society. You don't have to give it a lot of time--tell them if they're not sure about it, we can talk about it in section.
I really love your notes, and am very excited about this talk! I especially like the way that you connect the ways in which queerness and disability are both about having a non-normative body.
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Date: 2011-03-08 03:03 pm (UTC)What I would recommend is gently trying to compare this to how people sometimes criticize drag because male-bodied people are performing a particular brand of femininity that might actually reinforce sexism and binary gender paradigms. They are dressing up as a category of people who lack a privilege that they have, even though the fact of dressing up that way may put them at risk in a homophobic and sexist society. You don't have to give it a lot of time--tell them if they're not sure about it, we can talk about it in section.
I really love your notes, and am very excited about this talk! I especially like the way that you connect the ways in which queerness and disability are both about having a non-normative body.