We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

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