Logan Gutierrez-Mock's F2mestizo

There is an interconnection between social categorizations of race, gender, and class, that work in cohesive measures to create a disadvantage or advantage to those in a particular social group. Logan Gutierrez-Mock’s “F2MESTIZO” focuses on a biracial transgender man, who experiences life on both sides of the binary system, that being a white and a person of color, and a cisgender and a transgender. “F2MESTIZO” takes on the subject matter of intersectionality between race, gender, and class similarly to bell hooks’ theory on drag balls of the film, Paris is Burning. Although the ideas of passing between races and flowing between gender identities are often times seen through two different lenses, we see characters in both scenarios, enter and exit worlds of powerlessness and privilege, imitate race and gender to attain power, and establish a two-fold world of “us” against “them.” This, in turn, reveals much about the effects internalized racism that arises from the power complexities between race and gender. bell hooks’ criticizes the

The black gays’ “imitation” of the ruling-class white woman is therefore seen as a way for them to get close connections to the ruling-class white male. hooks argues that black gay drag balls ridicule, shame, and degrade women by imitating and over exaggerating not just any form of femininity, but white femininity. By “imitating” the idealized white woman persona, the black gay men are assumed to hold more power and become closer to the holy grail white male status. We see a similar “replication” of white culture in “F2MESTIZO” where a biracial transgender female to male named Logan, intentionally conceals his Mexican identity, whether it be in the public sphere or at school with his friends: “For years, [he] passed as white and made fun of [his]