Pleasures and Dangers in Adapting and Appropriating Hegemonic Sources

[...]through the series Fleabag, William J. Simmons reflects on how the queer-feminist spectator paranoically adapts, appropriates, reimagines a beloved text. [...]Dynasty Handbag constantly turns herself into the Other, into a product of generative embarrassment and queer community building. [...]all three of these artists can be found at Handbag's monthly revue "Weirdo Night!" in Los Angeles, where everyone has been an Other at some point and revels in that difference together with no desire to annihilate it.