My name is “Hybrid” Body, gender and sexuality in the drag queen experience

Abstract

Man and woman, male and female: the social behavior of individuals is guided by dichotomies found in learned bodies and disciplined. Accordingly, the social roles of genre come to be sexual differentiation factors to guide the intelligibility of the bodies, through social constructions of aesthetic, functional and behavioral codes. The drag queen – represented as a body where the gender social roles are juxtaposed – introduces, through performance, the possibility of re-mean fixed relations between gender, body and sex. While individual who operates in the transformation of their aesthetic and behavioral gender roles, the drag allows thinking a denaturalization of ties involving these concepts. Different from the transvestite and transsexual, the drag queen questions the fixity of issues "heteronormativas" through a performative Act where the body acquires female specific signs and applies to a male body, becoming "queer". The experience of the body drag represents a possibility to check the time that the normative relationship between body, sex and gender into deconstruction, resulting in a hybrid body. The article purports to reflection on the formation of male/female dichotomy and the production of performative drag bodies.