#drag culture

[kthulhu42]

"We're not insulting women" (Proceeds to insult women.)

If these men could stop calling themselves things like Anna Abortion and Miss Carriage, that would be great. If they could stop using phrases like "serving c*nt" that would be awesome. If you could stop acting like women who openly dislike patriarchal, sexist and restrictive beauty ideals are somehow close to being men, that would be fantastic.

[treesofgreen]

I've seen a few people here commenting on Izzy's brows and wanted to share this knowledge from a drag performer on twitter:

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Kings Of Drag 2, by Bruce Wang

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[ID: a tumblr text post edited blackout poetry style over a picture of rainbow glitter. The text reads "Honestly drag shows r inherently so awesome".]

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Honestly drag shows r inherently so awesome

Submitted by @awnowimsad

[noperopesaredope]

80s American drag ball culture is so fascinating and cool to me from a social and historical standpoint. A while back, I watched this documentary called Paris is Burning which was released in 1990, and I am low key obsessed with it. Like, all these people were rejected by their families and society, and they often had no place to go or no one to support them. So they all ended up banding together to create chosen families. And due to general society's lack of acceptance of their forms of self expression, they decided to create a safespace that allowed them to reject these particular social norms and be themselves. This eventually evolved into a complex culture with traditions and styles of dress and language and social interactions and stuff. It's really beautiful, in a way. I have recently started getting into anthropology since it became one of my require courses, and ballroom culture is a goldmine to me.

I've actually started using it as inspiration for the world of one of my stories. It's just so real and alive and interesting, and it should be appreciated more.

[burntpink]

Organzza fotografada por Íra Barillo

[spookyspeks]

Will never forgive rupaul's drag race for skewing the general public's perception and understanding of drag tbh.

Contrary to popular belief, drag isnt only glamorous and expensive and only for men dressing as women who are mean to each other. This shit leads to alternative/non-mainstream drag artists being told they're not doing it right/women and trans people being told they cant do drag and it makes me so mad!!

[fullsaw]

My vocal stim is currently the opening of Supermodel by RuPaul and its as bad as it sounds

[scorpion-flower]

I'd trust my child being around a drag queen, more than I'd trust them being around a priest.

[dyspuss]

The very grotesque Mr Sam Moanella!! He lives in my intestines <33

Photo credits to @ mcephotographs on insta!

[vagabond-art]

Please message me if you’re interested in this adoptable!

[alvallah]

Posting this because my coworker wrongly assumed USAmericans coined the phrase “spill the tea” because of the Boston Tea Party. No honey, it’s yet another black/queer thing that has been appropriated and miscredited by the mainstream.

One of our early print uses of T comes from John Berendt's nonfiction best seller, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In it, he is interviewing The Lady Chablis, a prominent drag performer in Savannah, about her dating life, and she notes that she avoids certain men because they're prone to violence when they "find out her T":

"Your T?"

"Yeah, my T. My thing, my business, what's goin' on in my life."

— Lady Chablis quoted in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt, 1994

Chablis' interviews in Berendt's book gave the world a peek into the vocabulary of black drag culture. T here is short for truth, and her truth is that she's transgender.

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It appears that T, also spelled tea, had a double-edged meaning in black drag culture. It could refer to a hidden truth, as Chablis uses it, and it could also refer to someone else's hidden truth—that is, gossip:

“Straight life must be so boring. Because everyone conforms. These gay kids carry on. ... They give you dance and great tea [gossip].”

— "Nate" quoted in One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men, William G. Hawkeswood, 1991

[cocainesuperstarsworld]

let’s play rough 🖤✨

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Kings Of Drag 2, by Bruce Wang

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[Image description: What appears to be a tumblr reply, edited whiteout-poetry style to remove some of the words. Resulting poem is below.]

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people think you are male and respect the fact that you are transitioning. drag culture Is about gay people. It's about respecting it.

Submitted by @absolutedestinyapocalypsse

[mxwiggy]

I’ve been unbooked and unbusy