Pecha Kucha 2: Race and gender politics in cross-dressing, dressing-up, and drag

Marx, Jacqueline

Title: Pecha Kucha 2: Race and gender politics in cross-dressing, dressing-up, and drag
Creator: Marx, Jacqueline
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143926
Identifier: vital:38295
Identifier: https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
Description: Sexuality is often less discernible than other markers of identity such as race and gender, which means that its perceptibility is often contingent on strategies that make it visible. Visibility is an especially important dimension in the shaping of lesbian and gay identities because people are generally assumed to be heterosexual. Making gay and lesbian identities visible is also an important political issue for people who have, historically, been threatened by the violence of public erasure. It is this aspect of gay and lesbian subjectivity – the politics of visibility – that is the topic of this presentation. We focus on gender and race politics in dressing-up, cross-dressing and drag performances - practices which make gay and lesbian sexualities visible, and consider the role that race and gender play in diminishing and exacerbating visibility.
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Language: English
Relation: International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP), Marx, J., 2015. Pecha Kucha 2: Race and gender politics in cross-dressing, dressing-up, and drag. International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP). 9th Biennial Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) volume 2015 number 0 2015
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