"Drag king knowledge"

 
Preciado 373: "Drag king knowledge [...] resides in the fact of perceiving others--all others, including oneself--for the first time, as more or less realistic biofictions of performative gender and sexual norms that are decodable as male or female."
 
374: "all these masculinities and feminities (including one's own) appear like caricatures that, thanks to a tacit convention, are seemingly unconscious of being so. There is no ontological difference between these embodiments of gender"
 
"Becoming a drag king is seeing through the matrix of gender, noticing that men and women are pefrormative and somatic fictions, convinced of their natural reality. This vision of the world makes you laugh [...] --political ecstasy."

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

> tagged with #femininity, #masculinity, #knowledge, #performance, #gender

> created May 8, 2024 at 10:56:20 AM


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