| Author(s) | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | |
| Publication Year |
Hairy Situations: Drag, Performance, and Gender Binaries
From: Decolonize Drag
$3.80
Khubchandani discusses drag in the context of gender constructs and gender expression. This reading explores how drag culture has been colonized through its popularization in a capitalist society to be a highly glamorized and exclusionary art form. Examining how drag has been coopted to support limiting ideas of how gender should be expressed. Khubchandani describes a decolonized iteration of drag as being "abundant, available, and accessible", and expands on how this can be achieved.
Contributors
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.
