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Decolonization at the Club: Staging Violence, Embodying Pleasure in Drag
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Chapter four explores drag as a tool for telling powerful stories and engaging with politics through art. Khubchandani dedicates this section to examining select drag performances that reference or parody certain mechanisms of colonialism: orientalism, incarceration, criminalization, racial capitalism, and displacement.
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Kareem Khubchandani
Kareem Khubchandani is an Associate Professor at Tufts University. He is the author of the award-winning Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife, co-editor of the Lambda Literary-nominated Queer Nightlife, and curator of Critical Aunty Studies. He also performs as LaWhore Vagistan, everyone’s favorite South Asian drag aunty.
