I saw Trixie and Katya Live
So last night, I saw Trixie and Katya live and it was fucking amazing as hell. They were amazing and it made me respect Kelly Mantle, too, since I didn’t know much about her. I laughed so much and I took crap tons of pics, plus several videos. I’ll be posting them hopefully tomorrow.
I also went to the photo-op meet and greet and got to meet them. They are so much prettier in real life and were so sweet. I gave them gift boxes of stuff including some vintage jewelry I found at antique/thrift shops near where I live, metal ornaments made by a local artist (a guitar for Trixie and a woman doing yoga for Katya), and a drawing I did. They loved the drawing and Katya gasped when she opened the box with the stuff, since the ornament was on top. Katya did comment that it looked they were gonna, and I quote, “les out”.
I laughed and buried my face in my hands in embarrassment.
Will start posting my images and videos tomorrow, but here’s the drawing:
This took several months of working on it bit by bit after work or on days off when I had the chance. This was hand drawn, then scanned and done in Photoshop. There are several references in it and I had planned on using screenshots to be the background, but it would be too taxing and digging through the screens I saved and took would take too much time, so the gradient background was made.
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𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐭…
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“Oh honey! That’s how I roll!” Fan art of Trixie Mattel’s All Stars 3 entrance.
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Opinion on drag queens? I can’t stand them tbh
im glad you asked tbh bc frankly i can’t really pinpoint my feelings entirely on them, its changed a lot over the years. when i was a 17-20 i was a HUGE drag race fan and i watched the show and posted on the subreddit, and this was when i first started exploring radical feminism so i wasnt unaware of the critiques going on about them here either. i guess back then i thought it was all in good fun. then a few years ago i lost interest in the show and like you i couldnt stand them anymore, i wrote them all off as overrated, sexist and tasteless caricatures of overblown femininity at best and actual degrading pornographic hateful stereotypes of women at worst (i considered then and now drag queens like trixie mattel, katya, detox icunt and raven to be the worst in this regard).
nowadays… im somewhere in the middle. while i dont know if i personally would go so far as to call it art (at least no more than i would consider the performance of femininity itself an ‘art’) i understand that it has its own history amongst gay men and i do think some of it has genuine merit as performance art - as in, some queens do put in the effort to make their own costumes, do their own choreography, etc. but on the other hand for that, if it is going to be evaluated as a performance art, then like other forms of art it should absolutely be held to the same standards of criticism, and shouldnt be shielded from that criticism just bc its an art created primarily by a marginalized group of gay men (or HST trans women). and thats where the very real feminist critiques on the misogyny in drag comes in, and it disgusts me that any concerns women have are written off as us being joykills or no better than conservative pukes or whatever. gay men are still capable of being misogynist towards women so it shouldnt be surprising at all that a good portion of drag queens are performing a sexist caricature of women (like the ones i mentioned above, those are considered to be the most famous and successful, go figure).
i think what really cemented this view in my mind was this clip that went viral awhile ago of this drag queen running around in a public space with this huge ridiculous floppy breastplate that was bouncing around… but then he ran into this group of children and he IMMEDIATELY cringed and covered himself. and it kinda just clicked for me for how weird some of this is, in a way that nobody but feminists were talking about. you have this grown man gleefully running around with this gross and porny and realistic looking piece of womens flesh worn over his body, because thats supposed to be funny and entertaining, and everyone takes it a face value and doesnt wonder what that says about how we view womens bodies?
i think the conservative backlash towards them in general is massively overblown, i dont think drag queens are in themselves inappropriate to be near children because feminine men are not inappropriate, altho i do think naked men or men wearing realistic breast plates or fetish gear ARE inappropriate to be around children, but thats just common sense lol, and yet both leftists and right wing morons fail to grasp this, that not all drag is child friendly, and similarly that some drag is misogynistic as well. (alot of them are mostly overrated as performers too…)
so yeah tldr i have mixed feelings towards them that can be best summed up as a passive annoyance or ambivalence. i agree that some of its very misogynistic and offensive, but that it varies from queen to queen. im sorry if this was meandering, im still trying to figure out my feelings towards them, and im hoping i can find some more feminist critiques on them to help me gather my thoughts towards them better lol
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