Kyle W. WholeyKyle is an editorial assistant for Signs: Journal of Women and Culture and a third-year PhD student in English. Kyle's research focuses on queer and feminist aesthetics in contemporary literature and visual culture. Their dissertation on "queer digital media," examines the relationship between humor and spectacle as a process of queer identity formation and resistance on social media. As a writer and scholar, Kyle's work emphasizes consciousness raising through community activism and art.
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"You Own Everything":
Class-Crossdressing in Pose and Paris is Burning
Abstract
This paper looks at issues of "class-crossdressing," in the 2018 TV series Pose and the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning. I read crossdressing as a process that is performed but not strictly gendered. My work challenges contemporary conversations of class and gender, while also questioning the role white scholars play in the process of engaging in critical race theory.