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Decolonize Drag

Decolonize Drag

by Kareem Khubchandani and Bhakti Shringarpure
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/02/2024

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Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunch, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstream-largely due to the intense, global popularity of reality TV competition RuPaul's Drag Race-some kinds of gender-based performance fall out of the purview of what we (could) call drag. Decolonize Drag details the ways that gender is used as a form of colonial governance to eliminate various types of expression, and tracks how contemporary drag both replicates and disrupts these forces. It also features the voice of author Kareem Khubchandani's drag alter ego, judgmental South Asian aunty LaWhore Vagistan, who prompts Khubchandani for context and analysis. Their dynamic sets the tone for the book, investigating how drag-and gender more broadly-has been privatized and delimited so that it's only available to certain people. Decolonize Drag argues for more abundance in and access to fashioning gender, and considers how drag changes across geographies. Decolonize That! Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas is a new series edited by Bhakti Shringarpure, academic, activist, and editor of Warscapes magazine.
ISBN:
9781682193952
9781682193952
Category:
Colonialism & imperialism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-02-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
OR Books, LLC
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
178x127mm

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