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...It’s a space for you to queer your appearance,” he says. “I think dressing in drag for a lot of people can be perhaps liberating. It’s stepping out of your clothes, which are the ultimate bond of gendered society, and it makes you think about cultural norms and acceptance...
...this kind of hyperfeminine drag performance that makes some students of queer theory doubt whether drag can be the liberating gender trouble that it aspires to be. For some, drag merely perpetuates stereotypes of how men and women ought to look...
...some ways, queer critiques of drag can seem like unconstructive navel-gazing: it’s infighting within the queer community about how to best destabilize gender, when it’s a small miracle that any kind of gender destabilization happens at all. The weird truth of it is that even a small-scale drag event like Drag Bingo is pretty damned subversive for Harvard, where bricks are red, blood is blue, and “queer” more often than not means bobo gay boys partying with other bobo gay boys...
...true that when drag means drunkenly borrowing the girl down the hall’s leopard print bra for an initiation ritual—as it often does—can be disrespectful to transgender or transsexual people. However, it can also be unbecoming of a queer theorist to suggest that trans-people are the only ones who have the right to dress outside the gender box. You don’t have to be trans to use drag to criticize traditional gender roles...
...really want to see it on my way to class.” Tolerance never challenges the visceral discomfort and silent disgust which undergird these statements. Nor does it engage with the privilege accorded to heterosexual public displays of affection—whether in the mass media queer students have been ingesting since birth or on the footpaths through Harvard Yard which we walk every day. So, taking our cue from student groups at Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of Michigan, the BGLTSA will stage a kiss-in today to claim public space for queer students and queer bodies...