Legally Blond & Mean Girls

Gabriel Pulido’s Legally Blond and Mean Girls are defiant spoken-word poems that repurpose pop culture references to confront transphobia, racism, and systemic oppression with biting wit and unapologetic clarity. Legally Blond reclaims the language and aesthetics of femme power to dismantle the gender binary and assert the visibility and resilience of trans people of color, especially in legal and historical contexts. Mean Girls satirically critiques white supremacy and performative allyship, exposing the violent absurdities of institutional racism while demanding collective accountability. Both poems wield humor, camp, and cultural parody not to soften the critique but to sharpen its edges, amplifying marginalized voices within a society that often erases them. Pulido’s work is a powerful invocation of community, memory, and resistance, offering both catharsis and a call to action.