My fav Elektra looks from the T.V show ‘Pose’

Dominique Jackson for Mugler SS22❤️‍🔥

The canon queer character of the day is:

Elektra Jackson, AKA Elektra Evangelista, from Pose, who is a transgender woman.

I’ve watched the third episode of the first season of “Pose”. It’s a Christmas episode – about all the Christmas stuff – presents, special events, family dinners and so on. Electra gets a huge change in her life – she’s offered “reassignment surgery” – to use a simpler language – vaginoplasty, but she needs money, so she and some of the members of her house rob some Christmas charity and while promising her girls presents, she pays all the money for her surgery. We get to see some much less pleasant events at the hospital. Pray Tell (Billy Porter’s character) visits his boyfriend and the dance teacher visits one of her best students. (Spoilers!) The next morning the student dies. This affects Damon almost directly because when he’s late to the dance lesson, he receives a tongue-lashing and gets kicked out until Blanca talks to the teacher again and then prohibits Damon going to the balls until he succeeds in his dance class and even though he’s furious at first, he agrees with her after all. Angel is pretty good at the dance floor and gets a prize on the Christmas ball, but isn’t that happy with her love life – Stan bought her a flat and promised to spend time with her and even come for at least an hour for Christmas. He even buys her a present… But then he doesn’t come and gives both presents to his wife after his boss came to his house while he was out, told his wife that Stan has a lover and tried to seduce her (but wasn’t successful in it), so on the Christmas morning Stan and his wife (her name is Patty) fight, but then he reveals both presents and tells that his boss isn’t the most honest person in the world (obviously) they reconcile. Angel, however, waited for him for almost the whole evening, but then joined her house and they had a nice family dinner everybody got the presents they wanted. The ending was very touching.

dominique jackson as elektra abundance in pose, ep. 7

We’re going to find out Akasha is the villain because all the narrators are males who got lined up and slapped like Futurama Mom’s boys because of all their fuckery.

If we get anything other than Dominique Jackson playing her as Selina Meyer, I’ll be disappointed.

(Basically Mother Elektra but every time she doesn’t have it together. No shade, no reads, just stressed and pressed.)

Dominique Jackson could absolutely do Ororo but when I saw her in pose I thought she would be an impeccable Emma Frost

I know that was a very popular choice, and I definitely see the energy. Her performance in Pose definitely conjures many of Emma's different facets-- pun intended. You get "I'm a diamond, I am by definition my own best friend" Emma, but you also get "On more time, then, for the children" Emma.

There's a reason why trans readings of Emma Frost are so popular-- she's a self-made who woman cut ties with her (proven homo- and transphobic) family, she had to fight for her own survival, we know she's a surge queen, we know she's an undeniable #mother, the list goes on.

Anyways, I was specifically talking about Ororo's general aesthetic and street style throughout the 70s and 80s. Punk era notwithstanding, Ororo's fashion was very elegant and chic, and I always think of her whenever I see Elektra because it's just that specific style, specific time, and specific place. She's a super cool, statuesque Black chick in 80s New York!

While Glenn Close is THE live-action Cruella DeVill in my mind, I honestly believe that D!$ney fumbled big time when they didn't cast Dominique Jackson for the recent Cruella movie. The way she played Elektra in Pose was too good for me to believe she couldn't play a fantastic villain role if given the chance.

wait why did billy porter get the emmy that isnt just “he was the only man on pose”… cuz nobody gave af abt pray tell. when ppl think of pose they think of dominique jackson or mj rodriguez charas elektra & blanca

Day 8: Elektra from Pose, played by Dominique Jackson

Up next, number 3 on my Queer Icons Pride Project list is Dominique Jackson. Dominique is a force to be reckoned with, she is incredibly talented, full of passion and fire. This image I referenced is a great example of that power, Dominique played the fierce Mother Elektra Abundance on FX's Pose. This show is a very important milestone in LGBTQ+ history, Dominique along with over 40 other transgender actor(s) told the story of New York's Ball Subculture during the late 1980s. Dominique came to the states from Tobago, a island in the Caribbean, at 15 and lived with her mother. She became not only a actress, but a model, an author, and a advocate for social change. Dominique inspires me by her fierceness and authenticity. She has such a confidence that one can't help but gravitate towards, want to embrace, and with some luck have a portion rub off onto themselves. If you are reading this @dominiquet.a.r.jackson thank you.❤ #brownjrart #dominiquejackson #pose #fxpose #lgbtq #pride2022 #prideproject #loveislove #strength #power #redsketch #queericon #queerartist #gayillustration #drawing #sketch #prismacolor #mixedmedia #portrait (at Turlock, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWG5pJrcoH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Dominique Jackson on Pose Season 1

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I’ve watched the second episode of the first season of “Pose”. So, balls continue and so do the competitions continue too and our young house (Spoilers!) wins two times in a row and are very proud of it. Then one guy called Ricky invites Damon on a date and they walk on the pier, kiss and dance together, however, when Ricky starts touching Damon’s ass and Damon says he’s not ready Ricky backs up and agrees to go on another date. Unfortunately (or not), Damon’s dancing teacher offers him to go to a ballet at the same time and Damon decides that dancing is more important than love life. Damon crying in the ballet is just such a mood I also cry at the theatre a lot. Anyway, Ricky waits for him in vain and when Damon tries to talk to him later and apologize Ricky says that everything is over. However, next time Damon invites him to go to the theatre together Ricky agrees. Discrimination of transgender gay women of colour in a gay bar. That’s what happens to Blanca and she tries to fight against it and even skips a ball for that. Police, seriously?! White young gays call police on a trans woman?! Because Blanca didn’t show up on the ball and Electra (The leader of the house Blanca left in the first episode.) gets her out of prison. Angel continues her weird relationship with Stan, who finds her in some sex club… I’ve read about such a place in “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides. Where sex workers (mostly those considered “odd” as here – a transgender woman, or in the book where it also was a transgender woman and an intersexual person) are in glass boxes and entertain clients, who can watch, but not touch. Stan is pretty possessive over her and says that she loves her because she’s the only real person in his life. She offers her to buy her a place of her own. Funny thing is that he actually does! He asks for a bonus at work and his understanding boss (sarcasm) gives it to him on two conditions – telling the truth about his lover and working weekends when required. So, he buys a dishwasher for his wife and a flat for Angel. The ending with classical music and the montage was just perfect! (The dance itself, however, was the wrong one, because it was «In the Hall of the Mountain King» by Grieg and I’m not sure if ballet on this music even exists… Okay, I’ve checked, it does, but it looks nothing like we saw on stage at the end.)

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