Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene, Volume 1

Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword Mark Ravenhill
Preface • Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier
1 Drag: Applying Foundation and Setting the Scene • Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier
2 Dragging the Mainstream: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Moving Drag Practices between the USA and the UK • Joe Parslow
3 Race for the Money: The Influence of RuPaul’s Drag Race on the Livelihood and Aesthetics of New York City’s Drag Culture • Kalle Westerling
4 Chinoiserie Drag: Masquerading as the Oriental Other • Rosa Fong
5 ‘It’s Always Better Performing with the Troupe’: Space, Place and Collective Activism • Jae Basiliere
6 Of Hills and Wheels: Tilda Death Drags Memory • Raz Weiner
7 A Transfeminist Critique of Drag Discourses and Performance Styles in Three National Contexts (US, France and UK): From RuPaul’s Drag Race to Bar Wotever • Kayte Stokoe
8 Not a Cock in a Frock, but a Hole Story: Drag and the Mark of the ‘Bioqueens’ • Stephen Farrier
9 Destabilization through Celebration: Drag, Homage and Challenges to Black Stereotypes in the Practice of Harold Offeh • Kieran Sellars
10 Gender Euphoria: Trans and Non-Binary Identities in Drag • Olympia Bukkakis
11 The Tranimal: Throwing Gender out of Drag? • Nick Cherryman
12 Drag Kings and Queens of Higher Education • Mark Edward
13 Drag Publique: The Queer Spectacle, the Emaciated Spectator and the Public Secret • Allan Taylor
14 ‘Blessed Is the Fruit’: Drag Performance, Birthing and Religious Identity • Chris Greenough and Nina Kane
Index