Brave New World

I cannot believe it. It seems that my university, in what I hear is the ninth most conservative city in the United States, has an official drag show. It takes place in the Student Union, and it has been going on for three years.

In my undergraduate days this kind of thing was, if not underground, certainly not an on campus, certified student event.

When I was in graduate school, brave undergraduate spies would go out on weekends, looking for Foucault in bars just so they could say they saw him … but it was still off campus.

Je vieillis. Is this liberalization, or cooptation, or a little bit of both?

Axé.


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