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The Outfit is the Message
Today I started teaching Michael Warner's The Trouble With Normal, a queer argument against gay marriage and other campaigns for normalization in LGBT political life--and for the abolition of sexual shame, and its replacement with a sexual morality that is not moralizing. [Google Books (preview available); Wikipedia entry (has a good summary)]
So naturally it was drag day in class.
I also publicly held myself up as the "right" sort of gay: married, monogamous, breeding, highly educated, white, religious.
I even wear suits.
After all, aren't all of my teaching outfits drag, of one kind or another?
So naturally it was drag day in class.
I also publicly held myself up as the "right" sort of gay: married, monogamous, breeding, highly educated, white, religious.
I even wear suits.
After all, aren't all of my teaching outfits drag, of one kind or another?