Luke Buckett's "Must Be Luv," with Kate Durbin

Normal 0 0 1 637 3635 30 7 4464 11.1287 0 0 0 Gaga Stigmata’s founding editor, Kate Durbin, recently directed and co-starred in her husband Luke Buckett’s music video, “Must Be Luv.”Meghan Vicks + Eddie McCaffrayThis is what “luv” is. When you look at a famous couple, you see your own luv story in theirs. You see “u” in luv. You see u in Yoko and John peacing out in bed, in Elvis and Patricia pigging out in the kitchen, in Johnny and June hanging out on the couch, and in Kate and Luke heading to Vegas to get hitched. It must be luv when the entire world reflects your own luv story. We watch “Must Be Luv,” and see...

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::++Stigmata Dreams++:: Bled Threads – Addie Tinnell

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::++Stigmata Dreams++:: Bled Threads – Tommy DiVita

Gaga Stigmata: How has your personal style evolved? What style phases have you gone through?Tommy DiVita: It starts with idealized images. How my style really started was that there was, and still is, a forced structure concerning male and female that is present in our society. My style evolved from not fitting into socially normative constructions of gender identity. I felt like I did not fit into the standardized male role.The idealized image of...

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::++Stigmata Dreams++:: The Manifesto of Jo Calderone

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:: +Stigmata Dreams+:: The Realness of Jo Calderone

Normal 0 0 1 2187 12467 103 24 15310 11.1287 0 0 0 By Jennie Gruber“To be able to blend – that’s what realness is.”– Dorian Corey, in Paris is Burning “Drag... describes discontinuities between gender and sex or appearance and reality but refuses to allow this discontinuity to represent dysfunction. In a drag performance, rather, incongruence becomes the site of gender creativity.”– Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinities“On...

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