People thought I was a girl; they didn’t get my costume; gender misrecognition and trans becoming; clowns as liminal guides; why animal costumes are the best; racist stereotypes in costumes; sexy, funny, scary, or artsy? of mimicry and man by homi bhabha; the need for costume archetypes; the queer art of failure by jack halberstam; fools, jesters, and the regulation of language