Queer Culture Critique

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For Queer Culture Critique assignment, I chose to attend Amy Cousins’s drag show on October 7, 2017, at the University Galleries with a couple of my friends who were curious about drag show as also. The drag show is in place to celebrate the Queer culture and to celebrate the Amy Cousins’s art while engaging in the LGBTQ* culture as also. I consider this event as part of Queer culture because drag shows are one of well-known artifact in the Queer culture. The drag performers would display their personality and have fun that will express their personality they would not do in their daily life. The drag performers were awesome. I enjoyed watching them perform. It was a well-organized event as also. It seems like the people who run behind …show more content…

Each culture has their own traditions, art, language, etc. Drag shows are not that meaningful in my life until I entered in college due to my environment I grew up in, I did not have too much experience with LGBTQ* culture and it was not until I came to Illinois State University that I really saw how huge LGBTQ* culture really is. Also, with the recent topics that appear in social media all time now, I was able to understand what is the details that are hidden in a huge concept of LGBTQ* culture. Attending a Drag show really taught me how very important for people who are apart Queer culture and I was able to understand how significant they are to their own culture. I do feel like Drag show is meaningful to their pop culture because of the rapid growth of social media. I feel the social media is a great thing because people can enjoy watching or performing while in comfort of their own privacy or they could not attend the event for various reasons and they can watch the show at the later time and even better, watch live …show more content…

Even though, this is really fascinating fact from my favorite childhood movie. It has taught me how huge the LGBTQ* culture really influence in our daily lives that we did not realize how much the shared culture really affects us in the ways that we do not notice or imagine. Also, in the class, we discussed briefly on how Drag Shows are viewed as part of the art that found in their culture so the drag show performers were just displaying their art for everyone to

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