The fabulous
This Victoria Bucholz/Karla Marx person is interesting, in an irritating way.
He’s in the history department at Mount Royal University, and a drag queen. (So if he’s a drag queen why is he trying to force people to call him a woman? Drag queens are, obviously, not women – that’s what the “drag” part means.)
The newly formed QriTical Research Hub at Mount Royal University is hosting History with a Drag Queen next Thursday, February 8th at MRU’s West Gate Social. Doors open at 6:30 PM.
This event will be a teach-in hosted by the fabulous Karla Marx!
Karla is a drag queen, burlesque artist, and comedian, using the art of drag to shed new light on the histories of fascism and the contemporary rise of global fascist politics.
He’s a drag queen. Drag queens are not women.
Developed and embodied by Dr. Victoria Bucholtz (History Dep. MRU), Karla Marx is known for her comedic brilliance, riveting historical analysis, and cheeky approach to educating through entertainment.
Oh I see. Bucholtz is not the drag queen, Marx is. Bucholtz merely “embodies” the drag queen. They’re the same person, but that’s a minor technicality.
Karla Marx is inviting you, the audience, to learn more about the ideologies and impacts of fascism, and to think critically and carefully about the role that “sexual anxiety” is playing in our current social and political landscape.
Which means what? You know. Wicked people saying men are not women: that there is “sexual anxiety” and it’s the road to fascism and it’s all women’s fault. Bitches.
Taking inspiration from Jason Stanley’s book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018), fascist leaders often position themselves as the protectors of women and children against “dangerous homosexuals.” In the context of growing and loudening anti-2SLGBTQIA+ movements in Canada – often under the guise of “protecting the children” – this teach-in will offer individuals a chance to better understand the functioning of “sexual anxiety” in right-wing movements.
I wonder if Bucholtz ever pauses to wonder if he’s the fascist leader.
Oh great, he’s going to skew and distort our understanding of the past and the present.
Yes, I can see him in full drag singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.”
My gods, that last quoted paragraph is practically a crime against grammar.
1: Fascist leaders are taking inspiration from Jason Stanley’s book decrying fascism?
2: “Loudening”. That alone would’ve gotten my English teachers to weep.
3: “2SLGBTQIA+”. The whole alphabet soup bowl. I’ve talked before about how the “2S” is particularly grating, managing to be a prime example of actual colonization and appropriation (colonization in that it’s not a term indigenous tribes in North America ever used, even in translation, but which was foisted upon them so that Whitey McTranserson could lump a genuine diversity of religious and ceremonial roles under a single term; appropriation is that you then get a ton of kids using “Two-soul” as if it means something about them and their potato-farmer heritage).
I’m guessing that Canadians refer to workshops as “teach-ins”? Not my first choice of words.
BKiSA: nope, or at least not in common usage. I expect he thinks it sounds friendly (while actually being anything but). “Workshops” are corporate / dictatorial / colonial, or something.
Freemage @ 2 – note also “under the guise of.” It’s IN, sir, not “under.”
As for ‘loudening’, I have no doubt there are some who will helpfully point out to us that language evolves. (I don’t intend to start using the phrase; it isn’t evolving in my mind).