Agency of the drag body in the deconstruction of body, gender and sexual meaning

Abstract

Drag queens have constantly appeared on television shows and in movies, have released their own songs and geared at their own rhythm. The emergence of the drag queen ever closer to the mainstream has provided greater visibility to these artists. This article is about how the drag body puts or not the body, gender and sexuality pattern in check. It starts from the reflections of theorists like Marcel Mauss (2003) and Judith Butler (2003) to think the body, as well as to think about its unnatural and socially constructed condition. Already Esteban Muñoz (1999) gives arguments about the hygiene that the drag body suffers to appear in the mainstream as a marketable product. The ethnographic research experiences in the city of Fortaleza - CE comes to help identify the poles and trends that the drag practice assumes in the city and in what way drags subvert or reiterate hegemonic social practices. The article concluded that drags are in a border territory of identification and desidentification with the norms, sometimes reiterating them and sometimes subverting them.