Echoing the Past: White supremacy, the policing of drag and Black resilience
“In 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center documented 200 anti-drag incidents. The SPLC and the An umbrella acronym standing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning. Learn more + advocacy group GLAAD have each documented efforts of anti-LGBTQ+, white nationalist, neo-Nazi, antisemitic and antigovernment groups to stop public displays of drag. These groups are invested in strengthening the gender hierarchy and stricter gender norms that help maintain Both a system of beliefs that holds that White people are intrinsically superior and a system of institutional arrangements that favors White people as a group. Learn more . These different movements target drag — a visual defiance of the hypermasculinity hard-right groups demand — with particular venom. Their attacks on drag help reveal how innate [politicalresearch.org] An ideology that draws from and contributes to religious and secular misogynist movements and authoritarian politics. Learn more is to these movements — and how it helps bridge the gaps between these movements.”