It Hurts to Be This Sexy
	2004-04-05 | 4:30 p.m. Transgressive
	The drag show was this weekend, and it went swimmingly. This time, my facial hair got me a tiny bit of make out time with a cute friend of a friend who I had met the night before. Drag works for me as much as I work for it! Hooray! I really want to make a career out of drag performance for a while. It would be so peachy. Hard and poor, but peachy. Poet Roommate and I have been having a lot of conversations about trans politics and identity as well as more general gender stuff. Each time we talk, I hear both of us say stuff that makes me cringe, and I'm wondering how much of it really is terrible and how much is terrible because I'm a part of an incredibily sensitive community. In either case, the cringing is good as a learning tool (if nothing else). Today's conversation was particularly intense, as Poet Roommate, after seeing the show last night, had a drag idea that would probably be viewed as really dismissive of trans identity (at least here, in this community) wherein she goes from a traditional femme gender representation to one that's decidedly trans (binding, shaving her head. The binding makes it a lot less about traditional butchness, I think) in order to make out with a girl. She ends by holding up a sign that says "Wanna fuck me now?" I'm oversimplfying a little, but I think that's what would stick out. If she did that number here, there would be major outcry, but I have a feeling that the same number back in Chattanooga wouldn't really get the same reaction. I don't know quite what to make of that, and I realize I'm being at least slightly vague. Hm. I suppose what I'm saying is this: the two of us have been thinking and talking a lot about how focused the queer community in New York City is on trans identity, and what that means for people who aren't really even butch. Given that Skirt Girl and I have had really similar conversations lately, I'm going to assume this is actually weighing heavily on my mind. So there ya go. **Queer Less** The weather that ROARED - 2005-03-01 Enabler's Rag - 2005-02-15 Where in the world? - 2005-01-14 Where have all the rude boys gone? - 2005-01-04 quickly - 2004-11-21 <-- - -->	Last Next Newest Older Rings Pictures Links Profile Guestbook Email me Notes Diaryland Hate is Great

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