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Paris is Burning

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Documentary about drag ball culture referenced in discussion of how modern discourse has adopted drag queen communication styles like throwing shade and snatching wigs.

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"This is probably a lukewarm take but I'm seeing this trend of normies (especially on the internet) communicating like they're characters in Paris is Burning. It's bizarre and seems kind of culturally appropriative."
The drag race-ification of modern cultural discourse. · u/Exciting_Yak8882 · ↑352 · 2021-06-08
"Just watched it for the first time, one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen."
Paris is Burning · u/paroxys · ↑80 · 2021-11-07
"To live as a trans person is to invite unimaginable derision, exclusion, hatred and violence into your life. You could only attribute this monumental decision to such frivolous things as social contagion or depraved fetishism if you had little to no contact with them. TDLR: Watch Paris is Burning."
"TDLR: Watch Paris is Burning."
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