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 LGBTQ+ 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 white supremacy. 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] male supremacy is to these movements — and how it helps bridge the gaps between these movements.”