🎠The Birdcage (1996) | Marxists at the Movies
To close out International Workers' Month, we're going full feather boa with a Marxist lens on Mike Nichols' The Birdcage. What happens when queerness is sanitized for respectability? What does it mean when the working class in drag is asked to behave for the sake of the ruling class? And how does this compare to the original La Cage aux Folles, which was far more unapologetic in its mess and politics?
We’re talking performance, patriarchy, and pink-washed politics—because drag may be art, but it's also labor. Join us for a sharp, funny, and unflinching dive into the contradictions of gay visibility under capitalism.
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