You don’t have comments enabled on your blog unless we are users of your specific site, Brandon! I wanted to say how much I appreciate your mentioning Sara Ahmed, especially as I was just talking about her work with Mona.
And there’s so much to say about the way the relationship between humanness and gender is shown in “No Woman Born,” especially when we compare it to “Helen O’Loy”… It’s interesting that you used the word “realness,” because that’s the term Judith Butler uses in Bodies That Matter when she analyzes the production of gender in drag performance and real life through the documentary Paris is Burning. Google Books link
You don’t have comments enabled on your blog unless we are users of your specific site, Brandon! I wanted to say how much I appreciate your mentioning Sara Ahmed, especially as I was just talking about her work with Mona.
And there’s so much to say about the way the relationship between humanness and gender is shown in “No Woman Born,” especially when we compare it to “Helen O’Loy”… It’s interesting that you used the word “realness,” because that’s the term Judith Butler uses in Bodies That Matter when she analyzes the production of gender in drag performance and real life through the documentary Paris is Burning. Google Books link