Cobain wore a similar dress on the cover of the Face magazine in 1993, Cudi’s was made by fashion’s golden-child-of-the-moment Virgil Abloh. The anniversary of his death was April 5th (1994) and Cudi’s SNL perf was on 10th April. Supposedly this was a homage to Kurt Cobain. But doesn’t how big of a deal it was show the opposite? It is being said that Cudi’s dress appearance shows how far the disintegration of gender norms has come. This appearance by Cudi (or Cudder as he is fondly called by fans) felt like a re-run of a tonne of problems seen before (for an intro to the missteps of American film and TV in portrayals of trans lives see Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, a documentary by Sam Feder that premiered at Sundance in 2020 before being purchased by Netflix.) There is a long history of American popular culture misrepresenting trans people with harmful stereotypes, tropes, and appropriating ballroom culture, etc. Presumably this was exciting because it was a man, in a dress. Kid Cudi showed up on Saturday Night Live (SNL) in a dress, and the internet exploded.
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