#genderperformance

[bkoch02]

6. Sephora Kids Phenomenon

The "Sephora Kids" phenomenon happened a few months ago, possibly even last year, when younger kids started going and reining havoc in the stores. There were even incidences where people were painting "black face" but that is a whole other issue for another day. This problem to me stems from young girls seeing social media platforms and then having the impression that they need to do things like makeup to look "pretty enough" for boys or "feminine" enough. Makeup has been a way to express femininity for years, and now these young girls are getting the impression that they need it to be attractive and to appeal to men, in my eyes. It also reinforces how these gender expectations are being forced onto the younger generations. Gender expectations are imposed onto us from birth, and these are things like the clothes we wear, the activities we are in, and how we perform day-to-day interactions. So, if young girls are only seeing content where women/girls are putting on makeup, they are going to get the impression that that is the only way to be beautiful and attractive. This also creates early exposure to gender performance by wearing makeup, they are performing their gender the "right" way according to society's standards. This is something that I could talk about for ages but I am going to leave it at that.

#gender

#bodypolitics

#genderperformance

[miss-whore-locke]

A few of my recent drag looks

[aheroicvisionoflife]

October 2022/4 If gender is the cultural meanings that the sexed body assumes, then a gender cannot be said to follow from a sex in any one way. Taken to its logical limit, the sex/gender distinction suggests a radical discontinuity between sexed bodies and culturally constructed genders. Assuming for the moment the stability of binary sex, it does not follow that the construction of “men” will accrue exclusively to the bodies of males or that “women” will interpret only female bodies. Further, even if the sexes appear to be unproblematically binary in their morphology and constitution (which will become a question), there is no reason to assume that genders ought also to remain as two. The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of gender to sex whereby gender mirrors sex or is otherwise restricted by it. When the constructed status of gender is theorised as radically independent of sex, gender itself becomes a free-floating artifice, with the consequence that man and masculine might just as easily signify a female body as a male one, and woman and feminine a male body as easily as a female one. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1990

[ultraevonne]

#tbt What up bellxs? Where the #charreada at? Me performing suavecito #charro realness at 7 yrs old 🐴💕🐴 #folklorico #genderperformance #gendernonessentialism (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxi3ljnAJQXbkcxy92ujSQV19Wyt8fix2-PkPA0/?igshid=esx8ceh2kzho

[lehmanrl]

I spent the morning re-watching several episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race for a reason... #YeahItsProblematic #ProbablyShouldWatchTutorials #GenderPerformance

[tamalerocks]

A dance between partners. #fire #firedance #firedancing #fireperformance #fireperformer #perform #performance #drag #dragqueen #dragking #queen #king #genderperformance #tamaleandsafetythird (at Austin, Texas)

[bezpracenejsoukolace]

performance research

[kingsqueensinbetweens]

In NYC and ready to take the bull by the horns with the National Theatrical Release of #kqib on 3/3 at @cinemavillage and @gatewaycolumbus and then iTunes, Amazon, and cable everywhere on 3/7! Starring @ninawest @thevirginiawest @drcoolethan @beckyh11 @lustervirgion @epletcreative @jacstringer @akashaoharalords and more fantastic creative talents of #genderperformance and #drag from #theheartofitall #ohio. Celebrating #genderdiversity, humanity, and love. #lgbtfilm #dragisnodrag. Grateful for our support team @colsfoundation #gcac #artmakescbus @candyfactory411 @thekarpelgroup! (at New York, New York)

[aheroicvisionoflife]

November 2022/3b + 3a To keep the social validation feedback loop going, it is of crucial importance to regulate and channel the power flow. Yes, power is concentrated in high profiles, but all low profiles are, and must be, integrated into the ongoing circulation of power lest they drop out of the loop. Social validation feedback loops are social power generators and regenerators. Just as in the capitalist economy the poor need to be given the constant opportunity to spend the little money they have (so that this money can eventually make the rich richer), in profilicity the low profiles constantly need to be given the opportunity to spend their profilic power in evaluating the profiles of others. And the cycle is self-reinforcing. By citing Naomi Klein or Judith Butler, we further their high profiles. And if we don’t cite people like them, we lower our profile even further by not being “in the discourse.” Hans-Georg Möller, Paul D'Ambrosio, You and your Profile. Identity after Authenticity, 2021

[twotonedsoul]

Who would you be if you were totally free from "supposed to's" and "should's?? GENDER IS A PERFORMANCE. How you choose to perform femininity and masculinity is up to you. 🚹🚺Before children are even born they are provided gender specific colors and toys...no wonder it's hard for us to break through those binaries. Get free! Allow your boys to cry. Allow your girls to be loud. Toys don't dictate or influence sexual orientation, nor do colors. 👶🏽👦🏾👧🏼👧🏽#TalkLikeFiya #FiyaAngelou #CurateTheCulture #HennandAppleJuice #FiyaTime #BlackFeminism #BlackPodcastsMatter #ScholasticHilarity #PalatableAdvocacy #JudithButler #genderperformance

[nameyourgender-blog]

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

Judith Butler 

[jrmilazzo]

#genderperformativity

[bifftheboxer-blog]

Biff- The King of Hearts A drag persona exploring the world of The Pick-Up Artist Seminars. Biff will deliver a seminar in Glasgow at Surge's Pitch event at The Tron Theatre

[noifsandsorbutlers]

#genderperformativity

[tamalerocks]

This weekend I had an event at work and a video shoot on Sunday. I looked normal at the beginning of the event, but when I returned, I looked like a dominatrix in sneakers and no one batted an eye. So grateful for a life where I can be just exactly who I am and do all the things I love. 🖤🖤🖤 #comedy #performance #comedian #fire #firedancing #genderperformance #grinding #art #artist #creative #COH #CenterOnHalsted #TenYrs #WeWillPersist #chicago (at Center on Halsted)

[miezemia]

❤️🌈 Happy International Lesbian Visibility Day 🌈❤️ This is a good day to let your inner Dyke shine through. #Tomboy #happyinternationalLesbianVisibilityDay #Lesbian #LesbianVisibility #GenderPerformance #Lesbe #dyke #lesbenGermany #queerGirls #getagirlthatcandoboth #femme #hanky #flagging #lgbt #pride #hereandqueer #schwuleMädchen (hier: Hamburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_cXwphnz0c/?igshid=1b1jp50xeq6l