A roundtable on the intersection of drag, gender, sexuality, and the decolonization with author of Decolonizing Drag, Kareem, "What's His Face?" Kareem is a writer, activist, podcaster, and podcaster.
00:00:00.000A historic day for Canada. A day that many people did not even think possible. You would talk to scholars and they would say, achieving peak Canada is not possible. Some people thought this day would come that we could see Justin Trudeau in the United Nations, in full blackface, get a gender transition surgery on the heart of the UN floor in order to raise awareness for climate change.
00:00:26.240That might be possible. Well, we've done it. We have reached, if not peak Canada, the closest thing to peak Canada right now. As breaking news, OISE, like the major education school, teachers college in Canada, is now aiming for our new push.
00:00:45.700What is Canada going to do for the world? We are going to. Decolonize drag. Yes, that's it. You know drag. The thing where a bunch of men dress up as women and sing the Lady Gaga songs. Yes, that is now colonialism.
00:01:00.940Because you know what really screwed over the indigenous people of Canada? It was back in the 15th, 16th century when Samuel de Champlain got over from the boat, just came off the boat with all his men, put on a wig and tits, and just started shaking around to, you know, I can't, I don't, can't even name a Lady Gaga song off the top of my head. I thought I would be able to in the moment. I wasn't, but you get the drift.
00:01:23.180Okay. So as we know, decolonization, what does that mean? Well, it's a, it's a very progressive, loving program. And what you do is you either support terrorist groups killing Jews, or you burn down a church, right? If you're in Canada, and you want to be a progressive decolonizer, well, you just, you go and you commit a terrorist arson attack against the church. That is what we call decolonization.
00:01:44.820Now, if you want to just do more like mass decolonization, you're usually calling for a genocide of Jews, and accusing Jews of colonizing, well, ignoring the fact that Arabs have colonized the entire Middle East. Again, Arabs from Arabia, Jews from Judea. But that doesn't really matter to decolonizing people, decolonial theorists, anyway, what we call it. I mean, let's go to this. Okay, this is just beautiful. Okay.
00:02:08.680Decolonize Drag, a roundtable on queering indigenous and black studies. Join us for an evening of learning at the intersections of drag, gender, sexuality, and the decolonization with author of Decolonizing Drag, Kareem, what's his face?
00:02:24.180I mean, we laugh, and we should laugh, because this is funny, and this is a good development. But I do think it needs to be stated. It is amazing the speed at which things move, because to decolonize something, to teach the leftist rhetoric, is to take something that is popular, you know, just distort it, claim its entire base is racist, right?
00:02:48.280And then move in black and indigenous and people of color, and DEI it in order to destroy its institution, or to gain power for the radicals to gain power of it.
00:02:57.900It's fascinating that they picked drag, because, you know, drag came around 15 minutes ago. Like, yes, it's been around since you were kids. You always had men, dressing women. Ironically, it's a very white male thing to do. Like, drag was invented by white men.
00:03:09.780Cis, cis white men. Heterosexual men? No. Cis, homosexual white men. They, let's be honest, okay? Who does most of the drag gets them?
00:03:19.480Was there a black drag queen in 1987 who, you know, was the first one to shake their ass in a semicircle, and then it was caught by a white man? Fine. Like, who cares?
00:03:29.140But the more fascinating thing is, it shows that the rapid social acceptance of drag has put it in a position to the radical left, where they feel the need to sort of infiltrate and destroy it already.
00:03:44.920It's sort of a leftist reflex to, you know, claim any institution that gains any acclaim, sort of any fame or standing, and the need to sort of corrupt it and take it over.
00:03:54.280It's sort of fascinating that drag is like that, because, I mean, drag has been used for the last, you know, five years as a means of cultural destruction.
00:04:01.400And, you know, not that, oh, the drag people are trying to bring down America. That's not exactly what I'm saying.
00:04:06.920I mean, the ones twerking in front of the kids at breakfast. Yeah, but it's more, you've seen trans activists use drag and drag time story hour and drag time this to push the culture.
00:04:17.120And that's actually very successful as a means to undermine sort of more liberal Westernism and turn it into more radical progressivism.
00:04:28.320But now that drag has been so successful, it itself is being targeted by the radical left, which shows that they might be moving too fast for equilibrium, which is a good thing.
00:04:40.600And listen, if radical intersectional activists who are, you know, prone to burning down things, might as well burn down something they just built up to burn down something else right away.
00:04:53.720I mean, this is the literal instance where, you know, you're not fighting fire with fire, but your enemies are lighting their own fire with fire on their own fire.
00:05:02.040But it's a very confusing yet pleasant development.
00:05:06.800So, OISE, if you want to just shake this way, I know it's nothing.
00:05:10.940No, this is actually a major institution again.
00:05:13.920Again, it's the number one teacher's college.
00:05:15.620It's U of T, which is one of the best schools.