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"['RuPaul's Drag Race'] doesn’t have a political agenda in terms of policies in Washington. But it has a position on identity..."

"... which is really the most political you can get. It has politics at its core, because it deals with: how do you see yourself on this planet? That’s highly political. It’s about recognising that you are God dressing up in humanity, and you could do whatever you want. That’s what us little boys who were maligned and who were ostracised figured out. It’s a totem, a constant touchstone to say, ‘Don’t take any of this shit seriously.’ It’s a big f-you. So the idea of sticking to one identity – it’s like I don’t care, I’m a shapeshifter, I’m going to fly around and use all the colours, and not brand myself with just one colour."

Says RuPaul, interviewed in The Guardian. (I've watched a couple episodes of the show in the last week, entirely because I love Tom & Lorenzo's podcast, and they talk about it in detail.)

RuPaul speaks very carefully and cagily about transgenders. The interviewer (Decca Aitkenhead) guesses that "he doesn’t want to offend anyone by explicitly acknowledging the contradiction between his playfully elastic sensibility and the militant earnestness of the transgender movement." RuPaul responds

“Ye-es, that’s always been the dichotomy of the trans movement versus the drag movement, you know... I liken it to having a currency of money, say English pounds as opposed to American dollars. I think identities are like value systems or currencies; there’s not just one. Understand the value of different currencies, and what you could do with them."

The interviewer expresses puzzlement about how a transgender women could have been permitted to compete on the show, because "if transgender women must be identified as female, how can they also be 'men dressing up as women'?" RuPaul literally look around the room for an exit:

“Well, I don’t like to call drag ‘wearing women’s clothes’. If you look around this room,” and he gestures around the hotel lobby, “she’s wearing a shirt with jeans, that one’s wearing jeans and a T-shirt, right? So women don’t really dress like us. We are wearing clothes that are hyperfeminine, that represent our culture’s synthetic idea of femininity.”

The interviewer snatches the opportunity: But then why not allow a biological woman to go on the show and go from an everyday look to a hyperfeminine transformation? RuPaul demurs:

“Mmmm. It’s an interesting area. Peppermint didn’t get breast implants until after she left our show; she was identifying as a woman, but she hadn’t really transitioned.” Would he accept a contestant who had? He hesitates again. “Probably not. You can identify as a woman and say you’re transitioning, but it changes once you start changing your body. It takes on a different thing; it changes the whole concept of what we’re doing. We’ve had some girls who’ve had some injections in the face and maybe a little bit in the butt here and there, but they haven’t transitioned.”

That's as far as it goes.  I'd like to hear much more about the "playfully elastic sensibility" versus "militant earnestness" dichotomy. Looking back at the article, it's full of references to seriousness and fun. I think seriousness and fun can go together, and the best real-life situations and entertainment offer both.

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