Félicien Breton<p>"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 (<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JudithButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JudithButler</span></a> , 1990, p.338)."</p><p>‘To choose to appear as “female” when one is male is always constructed… as a loss, as a choice worthy only of ridicule’ (<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bellHooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bellHooks</span></a>, 1992, p.145).</p><p><a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/esharp/esharp/9/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gla.ac.uk/research/az/esharp/e</span><span class="invisible">sharp/9/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/feminisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminisms</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>performance</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/performativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>performativity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a></p>