is something that like I came to as I accepted my status as working class, and accepted that I am going to remain working class because of various factors including disability and education, despite coming from a background of privilege.  I clung to my “respectability” when I was younger and had hopes of (and believed in the virtue of) upward mobility.

Now as I have accepted and embraced my class status, I perform disrespectable working class femininity as a marker of non-aspiration (I do not aspire to upward mobility, unless the desire to live in a classless society constitutes that) as well as of class pride (I am not ashamed, I am what I am) and also as a means of indicating working class solidarity, in the form of not aspiring to leave my class, but advance the working class as a whole.  Also I perhaps am compensating for accent and mannerisms acquired during a posh childhood, so that it is clear I am not trying to pass for middle class to my peers.