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\"Janet
Janet Mock (Photo: Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I saw Paris is Burning<\/em> for the first time as a college freshman, and one of the things from Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary about New York’s 1980s ballroom scene<\/a> that has always stuck with me is the undercurrent of longing that seemed to emanate from some of the Black and brown trans women featured onscreen. I\u2019m thinking specifically of the images of Octavia St. Laurent<\/a> drifting through a luxury department store and surrounded by cisgender white women at a model casting. Moments like these frame women like Octavia as outsiders, their faces pressed to the glass separating them from a world of glamour that is at the same time being aggressively sold to them.<\/p>\n

Those images stand in stark contrast to the ones from last night\u2019s glittering red carpet premiere of the third and final season<\/a> of Pose<\/em>. The FX drama was the first series to hold an in-person event like this in 2021, and it\u2019s hard to think of a more appropriate show to herald the return of glamour in the post-vaccine era\u2014or a cast more deserving of the spotlight.<\/p>\n

\"Mj
Mj Rodriguez (Photo: Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The show\u2019s cast and producers, including Mj Rodriguez, Indya Moore<\/a>, Dominque Jackson<\/a>, and Janet Mock<\/a> shone on the step-and-repeat like the stars they are. In many ways, the event represented the shattering of the barriers that were meant to keep women like Octavia St. Laurent out of the spotlight. The thought that the pandemic, along with everything else it has taken from us, could have potentially denied these trans women of color their moment of triumph, the opportunity to bask in the achievement that Pose <\/em>represents, is almost too much to contemplate.<\/p>\n

Of course, that achievement isn\u2019t without its flaws. In her opening remarks<\/a>, executive producer Mock took the opportunity to call out the show\u2019s pay inequities. \u201cWhy am I making $40,000 an episode, huh? Do you know who the f*ck I am?\u201d she demanded<\/a>, according to Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Indya
Indya Moore (Photo: Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite the necessary airing of those dispiriting truths about the way the industry continues to undervalue trans women of color, the photos from last night\u2019s event still mean<\/em> something more than most red carpet pics. They\u2019re more than just flashy, fabulous images of celebrities looking gorgeous. They\u2019re revolutionary images. At a time when Republican lawmakers are attempting to erase transgender people\u2019s existence, to nip a generation of trans youth in the bud by denying them gender-affirming healthcare, when trans women of color continue to be routinely slaughtered, it is no small thing to see Mock, Rodriguez, Jackson, and their colleagues boldly owning their place in the world.<\/p>\n

\"Dominique
Dominique Jackson (Photo: Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the enduring lessons of Paris is Burning<\/em>, and of Pose<\/em>, is that those in power do not have a monopoly on glamour. Anyone who is so inclined can create their own\u2014that\u2019s what ballroom culture is all about. You don\u2019t have to wait for anyone to bestow glamour\u00a0upon you; you can seize <\/em>it. And in seizing it, claiming it for yourself, calling it your own, you also seize power. Glamour, as the singer and performer Justin Vivian Bond is fond of saying, is resistance. It is the act of asserting your own self-worth. The women on that red carpet last night were performing a revolutionary act of resistance. 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