Blogh | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: Drag has been edging into the mainstream at least since RuPaul’s Drag Race; these days, a fair swath of Middle America is comfortable kicking it about wigs and throwing shade. Of course, our cults of masculinity and femininity have hardly gone missing: What we’re seeing in North Carolina’s anti-transgender law and elsewhere is surely backlash in a culture where issues of gender are being discussed openly like never before.
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While I am glad that drag has found acceptance in mainstream media, I can't help but be wary of the possible misrepresentation of such a varied world in the notoriously narrow lens of mass media. While I sincerely hope that this representation of drag and the wild world of the gender spectrum, in all its glories and representations, will receive fair coverage and representation, something that does not often come to marginalized gender and sexual minorities. But I digress. Going off of the actual content of the play, and this article's summary of it, I think I can give this my endorsement. While I always will have a little bit of apprehension about the stereotypes of femininity that drag stereotypes and portrays, I do feel that this collaboration will be especially fruitful, as the two histories of the creators/performers will allow for rich and non-appropriative sourcing of material. While I don't believe I'll get the chance to see this show at the New Hazlett, I do hope to see some incarnation of this work in my lifetime, as it is long past time for a well-conceived theatrical representation of the gender spectrum and its many representations, stereotypes, and interpretations.
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