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 Netherland.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.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSection 1: The state of drag: At your own perilChapter 1 - The politics of dragLeila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor, and Shae MillerChapter 2 - Super drags: Untucking the controversial cancellation of Brazil’s first drag animationLucas BragançaChapter 3 - Drag as protected expression in lawFlorian Kim DayagChapter 4 - “To combine Catholicity and being queer at the same time”: Religious and gendered positioning in the controversial case of the Philippine drag Pura Luka VegaAnne-Marie KorteChapter 5 - Embodying the illusion: Transcending and reconstituting the regulatory state through Singapore’s drag scene.Cheney Thomas Y. Yap and Orlando WoodsChapter 6 - Perverting the nation: Resisting drag phobia in Sweden in the 21st centuryLouise WallenbergSection 2: Drag activism: Changing times, changing livesChapter 7 - Pave the streets in lavender and red. Sharing the gossip: Understanding activist drag actionsNarzissa HelfritzschChapter 8 - Drag and authoritarianism: The rhetoric and aesthetics of Drag Den as response to authoritarian ruleJohn Paolo SarceChapter 9 – “Nothing’s gonna stop us now”: Drag activism in AustriaYvonne PrinzellnerChapter 10 - ‘I would not be here [without drag]’: Travis Alabanza’s Tranifest, drag archives and promiscuous care practicesElisabeth MassanaChapter 11 - Guimpe-ing it up for the archive: the vestiary politics of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in the United KingdomNina KaneSection 3: Histories: Of kings, queens and in-betweensChapter 12 - Against assimilation – A brief, but complex introduction to drag in Cape TownLindy-Lee PrinceChapter 13 - ‘Tassie Kings’: drag king culture in regional spacesPhoebe Adams, Sophie Keegan, Shan Hooper, and Kerryn Drysdale,Chapter 14 – Queering BlackpoolHelen Eadon-SinkinsonChapter 15 -, Watching and joining ex-servicemen's drag revues in post-war Britain: Examining drag's status as a queer art formJacob BloomfieldChapter 16 - “Maintaining the illusion to overcome adversity”: Drag performance and resilience in WWI campsCarina EhrnspergerChapter 17 - Con el poder de la transformación: Starring Freddie Bermejo. This is a putting on a show story about a show that never happenedIsabel MachadoChapter 18 - Mollies and Tommies: Excavating the eighteenth-century history of dragNowell MarshallChapter 19 – ”You would not have known her from a Woman”: Cross-dressing men in eighteenth-century public spacesJulie GammonSection 4: Drag epistemologies: It takes one to know oneChapter 20 - The ivory tower as colonial house, ballroom, and runway: Academic drag, drag epistemology, and Critical Race TheoryTommy MayberryChapter 21 - Drag organic intellectuals: Notes towards an embodied trans* anarchismSamu/elle StriewskiChapter 22 - “I’ve got nothing but hampers of ironing to do and my diet pill is wearing off”: Fat performativity in Divine’s dragJonathan Graffam-O'MearaChapter 23 - Who dealt these cards? Gamifying drag as historiography for molly subculturesMcKenna James BoecknerChapter 24 - Drag in the Czech post-socialist context: Between straight mainstream and gay cultural fringeZdeněk SlobodaSection 5: Bodies/post bodies: Werking beyond the wig.Chapter 25 - Encountering the Fish and the Ogre: Unveiling political ambivalence in alternative drag performances in the PhilippinesIan Rafael RamirezChapter 26 - (Re)Inventing the Self: Drag, posthumanism, and the collapse of human boundariesNick CherrymanChapter 27 - Dragging-up disability: Intersections of gender and disability in deaf drag performanceLooi van KesselChapter 28 - Dragging Latinidad: Drag nightlife as Latinx excess.David TenorioSection 6: Drag and postcolonialism: Anything but BlackfaceChapter 29 - “Can you get more American than Native American?”: Drag and settler colonialism in RuPaul’s Drag RaceNishant UpadhyayChapter 30 - Inevitable face: the elegant opacity in the fabulation of masculinityAngelica AdverseChapter 31 -Russian drag as practices of self-colonisation and decolonisationOlga AndreevskikhSection 7: Drag and Media: Watching me, watching youChapter 32 -Among Unicorns: Drag, queer activism and artistic production in the Middle EastCharlotte BankChapter 33 - Censoring Huysuz: Drag on Turkish tv and Infringement of cultural expressionSerkan KasapoğluChapter 34 - Out of the bars and onto the screen: Drag in independent North American film of the 1970sCameron CrookstonChapter 35 - Carry on drag: Cross-dressing and the queer legacies of the Carry On franchiseSimon DodiChapter 36 - Drag and the Eurovision Song Contest in Central and Eastern EuropeCatherine BakerSection 8: Drag as/and form: It’s givingChapter 37 - Drag lyric / Lyric dragZosia KuczyńskaChapter 38 - The dramaturgy of drag / Drag as dramaturgyChristian LewisChapter 39 - Dragging the dishonourable gentleman: lip-synching England's C/conservative villainsEmma WeltonChapter 40 - Dragging AI: Techno temporalities towards queer futuresJoe ParslowChapter 41 - Becoming versus imitation: The Zizi Show - A deepfake drag cabaretTengjin Bian