White Confessional: the performative soul-baring of whiteness, where admissions of privilege or bias are served up to POC like offerings at an altar. It's less about accountability & more about fishing for absolution or a pat on the back for "doing the work."

#WhiteConfessional
#performativity

"Drag dramatizes and makes explicit mundane, everyday gender rituals and, through this repetition of gendered actions, suggests that essentialist presumptions about correct or authentic genders can be reworked (#JudithButler , 1990, p.338)."

‘To choose to appear as “female” when one is male is always constructed… as a loss, as a choice worthy only of ridicule’ (#bellHooks, 1992, p.145).

https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/esharp/esharp/9/

“The repeated stylizations of the body—everyday acts and gestures—are themselves performatives, producing the gendered identity of which they are thought to be the expressions.”(Alberti, 2013, p. 95)

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/intersectionality/ @history @histodons

"Many societies take pains to #gender individuals with objects, tasks, and food, yet we repeatedly see that gender is not as important in the very young and the very old, and that gender is often most strongly marked when people are of reproductive age (Gilchrist, 2007)"
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/intersectionality/ @patriarchy