Episode 5

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21st Feb 2023

Gender vs. Sexuality, the story of a heterosexual male Drag Princess w/ David Shapiro

A mistake I have made in the past is conflating gender and sexuality. What does this mean? It means, sometimes when we see someone performing a gender (masculinity and femininity) in a "non-normative" way, we assume their sexuality is also "non-normative", meaning NOT heteronormative. So when I would see a drag queen I would automatically assume they are gay, however, drag performers like David, stage name Suzette Veneti, or even Maddy Morphosis from RuPaul season 14, show us that gender performance and sexuality are separate things.

Some scholars that discuss doing gender or gender as a performance are Kathryn Bond Stockton, Candace West, Don Zimmerman and Judith Butler.

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Mouthful with Shanti
Funny & smart conversations through an intersectional lens
Mouthful with Shanti is a funny, smart and inclusive podcast that unpacks culture, race, systemic injustice, sexual expression, gender and different embodied experiences through an intersectional lens.
Acclaimed Bay Area comedian Shanti Charan brings her unique mix of talents from her years onstage as well as the classroom. Charan is now also an adjunct professor and her research interests include social justice, critical race theory and post colonialism in relation to sexualities and gender studies.
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