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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Drag Queen"”.
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That's Ru-volting! how reality TV reimagines perceptions of American success
… of Americans experiencing success. RuPaul’s Drag Race is a prime example. The Logo TV reality show, devoted to finding “America’s Next Drag Superstar,” transforms the historically maligned drag queen from a hegemonic masculine failure into a celebrated superstar. Created, coproduced, and …
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Playing with stereotypes and building a queer community : race, sexuality and the stand-up comedy of Margaret Cho
… hag, the Asian American immigrant, and the black drag queen. A close look at Cho’s work in this respect reveals the efficacy, limitations, and risks of the performance of stereotypes, as well as stand-up comedy and popular entertainment in general, in serving as a site that promotes …
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The Royalty of Oakwood County
… dying father, Ezra Forrester, better known as drag queen and reality television star Lady Ezra Foxxx, her home of Oakwood County, and notions of love, celebrity, fame, death, and dying.</p>
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Drag, Drugs, and Demonstrations: Cultural Subversion under Capitalism
… United States. The first of which will be the drag queen phenomenon, which provides the most convincing case for the theory in the artistic sphere. Secondly, I will address a more explicitly political movement, the black liberation movement and its various permutations: the civil rights …
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The Family Bliss
Looking is a creative dissertation about a drag queen who invades the home of an unsuspecting family and seduces them each one by one. Three months after changing their name and pronouns and coming out as nonbinary, Zee Bliss returns home from college. There, they discover their coming-out …
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Sex and Respectability in Ireland: A Chronology of Cultural Change
… Four analyses the figure of Panti Bliss, the drag queen whose comments on homophobia in Irish culture set the stage for the same-sex marriage referendum. Much like the marriage movement, Panti Bliss represents the sanitisation, desexualisation, and the rendering respectable of the gay man in …
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Pemahaman pelaku waria dalam pembentukan keluarga sakinah: Studi kasus keluarga waria di Blitar
… of life by switching professions other than a drag queen. Understand and accept the conditions of psychic (mental) as a transsexual. Applying and deepening the Islamic religion. Included in this effort is always directed the family to repent and pray to Allah. In addition, educating children …
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RuPaul's Drag Race and the Toronto Drag Scene
The debut of the television show RuPaul’s Drag Race (Barbato, Bailey, and Charles) in 2009 marked the start of a new drag boom. The program’s commercial success throughout the 2010s brought drag performance into the mainstream cultural arena, prompting a host of effects on the historically …
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The Queer Mummer
Through blending the art form of drag and the Newfoundland tradition of mummering, The Queer Mummer deconstructs gender norms and homophobic attitudes surrounding being openly queer. The Queer Mummer serves as reminder that mummering, itself, is a custom that queers space. Both drag and mummering …