Routledge Companion to Drag

Stephen Farrier is Professor of Theatre and Performance, and Deputy Principal at Rose Bruford College, UK.Garjan Sterk is a PhD Candidate and Educational Coordinator of Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.Mark Edward is an interdisciplinary arts practitioner, a recovering academic, and author of key works on drag culture and bringing practical drag studies into higher education.

• Introduction SECTION I: The state of drag: at your own peril 1 The politics of dragLeila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor, and Shae Miller2 Super drags: untucking the controversial cancellation of Brazil’s first drag animationLucas Bragança3 Drag as protected expression in law Florian Kim P. Dayag4 “To combine Catholicity and being queer at the same time”: religious and gendered positioning in the controversial case of the Philippine Drag Pura Luka Vega Anne-Marie Korte5 Embodying the illusion: transcending and reconstituting the regulatory state through Singapore’s drag sceneCheney Thomas Y. Yap and Orlando Woods6 Perverting the nation: resisting drag phobia in Sweden in the 21st century Louise WallenbergSECTION II: Drag activism: changing times, changing lives 7 Pave the streets in lavender and red: sharing the gossip – understanding activist drag actions Narzissa Helfritzsch8 Drag and authoritarianism: the rhetoric and aesthetics of Drag Den as response to authoritarian rule John Paolo Sarce9 “Nothing’s gonna stop us now”: drag activism in Austria Yvonne Prinzellner10 “I would not be here [without drag]”: Travis Alabanza’s tranifest, drag archives, and promiscuous care practicesElisabeth Massana11 Guimpe-ing it up for the archive: the vestiary politics of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in the United Kingdom Nina KaneSECTION IIIL Histories: of kings, queens, and in-betweens12 Against assimilation: A brief, but complex introduction to drag in Cape Town Lindy-Lee Prince13 “Tassie Kings”: drag king culture in regional spaces Phoebe Adams, Sophie Keegan, Shan Hooper, and Kerryn Drysdale14 Queering Blackpool Helen Eadon-Sinkinson15 Watching and joining ex-servicemen’s drag revues in post-war Britain: examining drag’s status as a queer art form Jacob Bloomfield16 “Maintaining the Illusion to overcome adversity”: drag performance and resilience in WWI campsCarina Ehrnsperger17 Con El Poder de la Transformación: starring Freddie Bermejo: this is a putting on a show story about a show that never happened Isabel Machado18 Mollies and tommies: excavating the eighteenth-century history of dragNowell Marshall19 “You would not have known her from a woman”: cross-dressing men in eighteenth-century public spaces Julie GammonSECTION IV: Drag epistemologies: it takes one to know one 20 The ivory tower as colonial house, ballroom, and runway: academic drag, drag epistemology, and critical race theory Tommy Mayberry21 Drag organic intellectuals: notes towards an embodied trans* anarchism Samu/elle Striewski22 “I’ve got nothing but hampers of ironing to do and my diet pill is wearing off”: fat performativity in Divine’s drag Jonathan Graffam-O’Meara23 Who dealt these cards? Gamifying drag as historiography for Molly subcultures McKenna James Boeckner24 Drag in the Czech post-socialist context: between straight mainstream and gay cultural fringe Zdeněk SlobodaSECTION V: Bodies/post bodies: werking beyond the wig 25 Encountering the fish and the ogre: unveiling political ambivalence in alternative drag performances in the Philippines Ian Rafael Ramirez26 (Re)Inventing the self: drag, posthumanism, and the collapse of human boundaries Nick Cherryman27 Dragging-up disability: intersections of gender and disability in deaf drag performanceLooi van Kessel28 Dragging Latinidad: drag nightlife as Latinx excess David TenorioSECTION VI: Drag and postcolonialism: giving face29 “Can you get more American than Native American?”: drag and settler colonialism in RuPaul’s Drag Race Nishant Upadhyay30 Inevitable face: the elegant opacity in the fabulation of masculinity Angélica Adverse31 Russian drag as practices of self- colonisation and decolonisation Olga AndreevskikhSECTION VII: Drag and media: watching me, watching you 32 Among unicorns: drag, queer activism and artistic production in the Middle EastCharlotte Bank33 Censoring Huysuz: drag on Turkish TV and infringement of cultural expression Serkan Kasapoğlu34 Out of the bars and onto the screen: drag in independent North American film of the 1970s Cameron Crookston35 Carry on drag: cross-dressing and the queer legacies of the Carry On franchiseSimon Dodi36 Drag and the Eurovision Song Contest in Central and Eastern Europe Catherine BakerSECTION VIII: Drag as/and form: it’s giving 37 Drag lyric/lyric drag Zosia Kuczyńska38 The dramaturgy of drag/ drag as dramaturgy Christian Lewis39 Dragging the dishonourable gentleman: lip-synching England’s C/conservative villains Em Welton40 Dragging AI: technotemporalities towards queer futures Joe Parslow41 Becoming versus imitation: The Zizi Show – a deepfake drag cabaret Tengjin Bian