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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"drag performance"”.
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Drag performance, identity, and cultural perception
… cross-dressed performers. It will situate drag performers within their cultural context in order to establish how their concerns, motivations, employment, communities, friendships, self-perception and artistic ambitions impact on their performances. Furthermore, it utilises performance and …
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Lift and drag performance of a systematic series of yacht hull models
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering, 1978
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Dragging Out (In)Difference: Explorations of the Cultural and Affective Politics of Drag Queens' Performances in Toronto, Canada
… theaffective, cultural, and national politics of drag performance amongst drag queens and other “feminine-expressing/presenting” drag performers in Toronto, Canada. Based on 24 months of fieldwork within various queer urban spaces and drag performance contexts as both an ethnographer and …
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Designing Shock Control Bumps for Transonic Commercial Aircraft
… a λ-shock structure, 2D SCBs offer large drag savings, but perform poorly when that structure breaks down off-design. Milder-performing 3D devices produce weak vortices, that may offer some boundary layer control, and SCBs also affect buffet via direct impact on shock motions and …
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
The rise of censorship laws targeting drag performance and gender expression reflects a broader political and ideological effort to regulate LGBTQIA+ visibility and reinforce heteronormative norms. These laws, often justified under child protection rhetoric and morality-based policymaking, rely on …
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James Merrill's use of performance imagery and AIDS in his last three collections
… orientation undertaken in Late Settings in that performance and social change are represented more concretely through drag performativity and AIDS. In his last collection, A Scattering of Salts, Merrill refutes the social turn of his two previous collections. The poet's drag performance is used …
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Drag hinge : "reading" the scales between architecture and urbanism
… is a queer subculture that emerged out of drag performance(s) and is largely comprised of queer people of color (QPOCs) in New York City during the early 1970s. In ballroom, contestants "walk" categories that emulate archetypal traits of another gender, sex, or social class, or battle …
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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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Drag Across Borders: Negotiating 2SLGBTQ+ Refugee/Migrant Being and Belonging Through Drag Personas
This qualitative study uses drag performance to better understand some of the complexity of 2SLGBTQ+ refugee and other migrant identities and experiences of in/exclusion from (national) belonging in Canada. Racialized Western border regimes and reception frameworks position refugees/migrants along …
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Social and cultural inclusion of queered and racialized performance during Chicago’s black pansy craze
… by wide-spread public fascination with “pansy” performance, or entertainment involving male entertainers performing in feminine personas suggestive of homosexuality. During the pansy craze, the visibility of “sexual inversion,” or “queer” performativity combined with the popularity of …
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Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939
<p>Across the United States, in the mid-1930s, drag made a transition, along with much other entertainment, from vaudeville into night clubs. There, concomitant with developing notions of gender and sexuality, it became increasingly associated with the contemporary expressions of drag that we see …
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Camping in the Classroom: Ridiculous Theatre as Serious Drama
… his sexual identity in such a manner that his performance became stiff and uninteresting. Rather than using his personal identity as an asset in the pursuit of a successful performance, his chosen vocal tactics removed any sense of theatricality from his performance. I confronted the student …
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Turbine blade erosion and the use of wind protection tape
The aerodynamic performance of wind turbine airfoils with leading edge erosion was investigated in this research. The tests were conducted on DU 96-W-180 wind turbine airfoil at three Reynolds numbers between 1 and 1.85 million and angles of attack spanning the low drag range of the airfoil. The …