"Live, Work, Pose." Popularized by the television series Pose, this phrase captures the ethos of Ballroom culture: a space where marginalized individuals engage in ongoing processes of self-identification and self-fashioning within what has been described as a "fictitious existence." Rather than assimilating into dominant social structures or wholly rejecting them, Ballroom participants enact a form of agency through performance- one that both navigates and contests normative

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