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Decolonize Drag

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By (author): Kareem Khubchandani

Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstreamlargely due to the intense, global popularity of reality TV competition RuPauls Drag Racesome kinds of gender-based performance fall out of the purview of what we (could) call drag.

Decolonize Drag details the ways that gender is used as a form of colonial governance to eliminate various types of expression, and tracks how contemporary drag, including that on Drag Race, both replicates and disrupts these institutional hierarchies. This book focuses on several gender performers that resist and laugh at colonial projects through their aesthetic practices. It also features the voice of Khubchandani's drag alter ego, judgmental South Asian aunty LaWhore Vagistan. From the firsthand perspective of a drag artist, LaWhore describes encounters with depoliticized versions of drag that leave her disappointed and perplexed, and prompts Khubchandani for context and analysis.

Their dynamic sets the tone for the book, investigating how dragand gender more broadlyhas been privatized and delimited so that it's only available to certain people. Decolonize Drag argues for more abundance in and access to fashioning gender, and considers how drag changes meaning and efficacy as it shifts across geographies.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Jan 2024
  • Publisher: OR Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781682193952

About Kareem Khubchandani

Kareem Khubchandani is an associate professor in the department of theater dance and performance studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife co-editor of Queer Nightlife and editor of the TPQ special issue Critical Aunty Studies. His writing appears in Scholar and Feminist Online Transgender Studies Quarterly SAMAJ South Asia Journal of Asian American Studies and the Velvet Light Trap. Khubchandani performs in drag as LaWhore Vagistan who interweaves storytelling standup comedy body art theater and digital media. Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer academic and founding editor of Warscapes magazine. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital and a regular contributor to The Los Angeles Review of Books and Africa is a Country. She currently runs the Radical Books Collective which pushes for an alternative inclusive and non-commercial approach to books and reading.

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