Paris Is Burning Analysis

In today’s society doing gender has been made a focal point examining the social traits of masculinity and feminity. Society thinks that if you do gender your practicing a performance. I have noticed in my studies that judging people gender practices can reinforce gender equality as well as take for granted the human body. Have you ever watched the film Paris is Burning? Paris is Burning is about the 1980’s and queer culture. Paris is Burning describes how queer communities survived during this time. In Gender is Burning Butler writes “Paris is Burning documents neither an efficacious insurrection nor a painful resubordination, but an unstable coexistence of both.” What does she mean?
Addressing this question, I will argue that drag women are only acceptable when they are to entertain heterosexual bodies on television. I will draw from Butler’s Gender is Burning and the 1980 film Paris is Burning and then define my findings in the summary. In the film the success of drag is being judged by the extent to which ball contestants must pass meaning to be read as normal opposed to being read meaning for the queens in Paris Is Burning, to read by another queen is also to dis her.
In addressing a lived experience of ball culture I will describe the performances of feminizing black
The film showed fascination with feminism, it also showed how society exposes sex, gender, and racism. Butler’s argument that the ball participants fantasy to escape poverty, homophobia, and racism is just that a fantasy. The film also identifies that the ball exposes that the desires of the contestants falsely idealize womanhood. In the quote “Paris is Burning documents neither an efficacious insurrection nor a painful resubordination, but an unstable coexistence of both”(137) Butler is implementing that society has deep rooted constraints on what it means to be male and female, but gender is much more than societies outdated