Comments on: this qualifies as yellowface

By: Pinky Bear

Pinky Bear — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:14:35 +0000

As for the Drag Part, well there is a female side of me that has to come out. She is too big to stay locked up. Of course, my feminine side is a strong woman who takes control of her world and says what she wants.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:23:39 +0000

Here, here! Yesterday, the mayor of Philly (John Street) rode around all day in a wheelchair just to “relate” to disabled people. Lovely huh? Are you still handing out those cookies? HEHE.

By: misscripchick

misscripchick — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:02:58 +0000

Hey Sandra, I don’t want you to think I’m ignoring your comment but am going to have to take some time to put my thoughts into words.
Thanks for commenting.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:39:18 +0000

I’m not sure; what do you think about dressing up in drag? Are there similarities between dressing up in drag and dressing up as someone from another culture, or as a person with a disability. I think so. Judith Butler argues that dragt shows us all that gender is in some sense, performative. It not something essential or innate to the person but rather something we enact and herein lies it subversive force. To stretch the analogy - to dress up today as someone from Ghana is not to assume the identity of a person from Ghana, as if one could do that, but rather to recognize that race is also performative in some sense. That race is not biological, and thus, it has its performative aspects. Given that race has come to signify inferiority, then stressing the performative aspects of race might be a good thing. Also, I think the work by recent theorists, such as Margrit Shildrick, that has stressed the performative aspects of disability, is very interesting. Do we not perform cultural ideas of what it is to be disabled? Is it useful to claim that there is something about disability identity that is innate and unique, and only mine. If so, then how?
Sandra

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:54:04 +0000

My 14 year old twin daughters are Asian American (adopted from Vietnam) and when they were little, people always wanted to see them as Asian dolls. Which cracked me up because the girls completely upended all those stereotypes only wanting to wear boys clothes. Which was fine by me.