"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

Ferocious, Undaunting, and Cunty. These were my initial impressions of the ballroom scene after watching three sessions of POSE, a TV...

Introduction Throughout 2022, I witnessed a growing number of public presentations where queer individuals proudly embraced their...