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View submission: Any queer academics defining 'Drag'?
Drag performer and grad student here, here are my recs:
- *Their Majesty: Drag Performance and Queer Communities in London* by Joe Parslow (super recent, the intro might be useful to you)
- *Reframing Drag: Beyond Subversion and the Status Quo* by Kayte Stokoe
- and for a historically situated overview of the role of drag/cross-dressing in earlier iterations of queer theory and performance studies... I might suggest "From Here to Queer: Radical Feminism, Postmodernism, and the Lesbian Menace" by Suzanna Danuta Walters from 1996. (You may cringe while reading it b/c language for trans people, drag queens, etc. has shifted a lot since then. But it's useful to see what discussions were being had about drag in the academy 30 years ago!)
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