“The goal of drag, following Butler and Rubin, is to obliterate conceptions of gender through performativity.”
Transan Harris Kornstein som sitter i styrelsen för organisationen Drag Queen Story Hour har publicerat ett manifest för rörelsen som döptes till “Drag Pedagogy: The Playful Practice of Queer Imagination in Early Childhood,” och där kan man bla läsa:
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the essay begins by applying queer theory’s basic premise of social constructivism and heteronormativity to the education system. “The professional vision of educators is often shaped to reproduce the state’s normative vision of its ideal citizenry. In effect, schooling functions as a way to straighten the child into a kind of captive alignment with the current parameters of that vision,” Kornstein and Keenan write. “To state it plainly, within the historical context of the USA and Western Europe, the institutional management of gender has been used as a way of maintaining racist and capitalist modes of (re)production.”
To disrupt this dynamic, the authors propose a new teaching method, “drag pedagogy,” as a way of stimulating the “queer imagination,” teaching kids “how to live queerly,” and “bringing queer ways of knowing and being into the education of young children.” As Kornstein and Keenan explain, this is an intellectual and political project that requires drag queens and activists to work toward undermining traditional notions of sexuality, replacing the biological family with the ideological family, and arousing transgressive sexual desires in young children.
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For the drag pedagogists, the traditional life path—growing up, getting married, working 40 hours a week, and raising a family—is an oppressive bourgeois norm that must be deconstructed and subverted. As the drag queens take the stage in their sexually suggestive costumes, Kornstein and Keenan argue, their task is to disrupt the “binary between womanhood and manhood,” seed the room with “gender-transgressive themes,” and break the “reproductive futurity” of the “nuclear family” and the “sexually monogamous marriage”—all of which are considered mechanisms of heterosexual, capitalist oppression.
Detta är alltså det primära syftet med dessa sagostunder och vill man läsa mer om dess ursprung och kopplingar till homo och queer aktivism med perversiteter som bla barn och djursex som vapen länkar jag till artikeln i sin helhet.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-real-story-behind-drag-queen-story-hour
