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Title: What's up with drag (kings)?
Post by: Allamakee on January 03, 2010, 04:28:12 PM
Post by: Allamakee on January 03, 2010, 04:28:12 PM
What's up with drag?
Cherrie
by Kate O'Halloran
December 21, 2009
http://cherrie.e-p.net.au/features/what-s-up-with-drag.html (http://cherrie.e-p.net.au/features/what-s-up-with-drag.html)
I will be the first to admit I have always felt particularly ambivalent about drag kings. On the one hand I admit to squeamishness at the vulgarity of names like Max Fukter, BustHerr and BangHerr, Justin Sider and so on. On the other, I long for drag to be a performative medium for challenging gendered and sexual norms – and love it when I feel it does this successfully. But is that what drag is really about? Or does it have to be about anything at all?
I spoke to a diversity of kings about how they perceive drag and its meaning, and discovered a few things about a topic so enamoured to the queer community.
Cherrie
by Kate O'Halloran
December 21, 2009
http://cherrie.e-p.net.au/features/what-s-up-with-drag.html (http://cherrie.e-p.net.au/features/what-s-up-with-drag.html)
I will be the first to admit I have always felt particularly ambivalent about drag kings. On the one hand I admit to squeamishness at the vulgarity of names like Max Fukter, BustHerr and BangHerr, Justin Sider and so on. On the other, I long for drag to be a performative medium for challenging gendered and sexual norms – and love it when I feel it does this successfully. But is that what drag is really about? Or does it have to be about anything at all?
I spoke to a diversity of kings about how they perceive drag and its meaning, and discovered a few things about a topic so enamoured to the queer community.
Title: Re: What's up with drag (kings)?
Post by: tekla on January 03, 2010, 05:45:51 PM
Post by: tekla on January 03, 2010, 05:45:51 PM
I long for drag to be a performative medium for challenging gendered and sexual norms
And here I thought that's what they were doing. When they get TV or newspapers where Kate lives she'll be up on all this stuff. Really, statements like: It occurs to me that drag is often about the presentation of a gendered position different from the one you inhabit in your everyday life is not exactly Einstein territory. That article read like she's out for Ric Romero's job.
And here I thought that's what they were doing. When they get TV or newspapers where Kate lives she'll be up on all this stuff. Really, statements like: It occurs to me that drag is often about the presentation of a gendered position different from the one you inhabit in your everyday life is not exactly Einstein territory. That article read like she's out for Ric Romero's job.