By RUTH CARR
Los Alamos

Dear Rheta,

Thank you so much for your response. I am glad you took the time to read Lil Miss Hot Mess’ article. I am certain Lil Miss Hot Mess expanded the vocabulary of a lot of readers.

My intention with sharing it was to highlight that the article co-authored by Lil Miss Hot Mess, is a refutation of some of the arguments used this past week to support Drag Time Story Hour. There were suggestions these story times are simply dress up story times. They’re not. They are designed to emphasize play as practice for living a queer life.

If Lil Miss Hot Mess is capable of acknowledging that they are attempting to mold children, why would local supporters obfuscate their published intention to blur those lines? It’s personal bias to downplay those intentions as empathy building and mere play, when Lil Miss Hot Mess talks about “false empathy” and “embodied kinship”. “Strategic defiance” (LMHM) is not related to “bias against a group of people”, (your quote) but rather goes beyond that “encouraging students to explore the boundaries of  acceptability” (LMHM).

There is a lot within this paper to discuss, but we’ll get nowhere if we cannot start on a foundation of mutual understanding of the designed intention of Drag Queen Story Hour.

Sincerely,

Ruth Carr