Butler’s notion of gender performativity argues that it is in, and through, techniques of the body that sex/gender is reproduced. In other words, there is no prior “natural” sex, only performances of male and female that are always cultural. In this way, as previous chapters [Real Bodies] have explained using examples other than dress, according to Butler, sex is the product of cultural inscriptions and discourses that constantly call upon us to act as “masculine” or “feminine” through techniques and strategies of the body/dress. Drag artists draw attention to the artificiality of such codes by adopting the dress of the opposite “sex,” many of them successfully “passing” as the opposite sex, but if all such acts of the body are “unnatural,” that is, in no way determined by some essential qualities of our “sex,” then we are all wearing “drag.