How to define a word that's so slippery yet so engrained in everyday use? It's a tricky task, but moore offers the four main characteristics of fabulousness: It doesn't have to be expensive; it can be secured in innumerable ways; because it's largely practiced by queer and other marginalized people, it's "dangerous, political, confrontational, [and] risky"; and it's about being a spectacle not only to be seen, but also because certain people are over-surveilled and undervalued. Put another way, fabulousness is primarily about a swashbuckling and transgressive world-making.
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