The Routledge Companion to Drag

Section 1: The state of drag: At Your Own Peril. 1. The politics of drag 2. Super drags: Untucking the controversial cancellation of Brazil's first drag animation 3. Drag as protected expression in law 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 Vega 5. Embodying the illusion: Transcending and reconstituting the regulatory state through Singapore's drag scene. 6. Perverting the nation: Resisting drag phobia in Sweden in the 21st century Section 2: Drag activism: Changing times, changing lives 7. Pave the streets in lavender and red. Sharing the gossip: Understanding activist drag actions 8. Drag and authoritarianism: The rhetoric and aesthetics of Drag Den as response to authoritarian rule 9. "Nothing's gonna stop us now": Drag activism in Austria 10. 'I would not be here [without drag]': Travis Alabanza's Tranifest, drag archives and promiscuous care practices 11. Guimpe-ing it up for the archive: the vestiary politics of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in the United Kingdom Section 3: Histories: Of kings, queens and in-betweens 12. Against assimilation - A brief, but complex introduction to drag in Cape Town 13. 'Tassie Kings': drag king culture in regional spaces 14. Queering Blackpool. 15. Watching and joining ex-servicemen's drag revues in post-war Britain: Examining drag's status as a queer art form 16. "Maintaining the illusion to overcome adversity": Drag performance and resilience in WWI camps 17. Con el poder de la transformacion: Starring Freddie Bermejo. This is a putting on a show story about a show that never happened 18. Mollies and Tommies: Excavating the eighteenth-century history of drag 19."You would not have known her from a Woman": Cross-dressing men in eighteenth-century public spaces Section 4: 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 21. Drag organic intellectuals: Notes towards an embodied trans* anarchism 22. "I've got nothing but hampers of ironing to do and my diet pill is wearing off": Fat performativity in Divine's drag 23. Who dealt these cards? Gamifying drag as historiography for molly subcultures 24. Drag in the Czech post-socialist context: Between straight mainstream and gay cultural fringe Section 5: Bodies/post bodies: Werking beyond the wig. 25. Encountering the Fish and the Ogre: Unveiling political ambivalence in alternative drag performances in the Philippines 26. (Re)Inventing the Self: Drag, posthumanism, and the collapse of human boundaries 27. Dragging-up disability: Intersections of gender and disability in deaf drag performance 28. Dragging Latinidad: Drag nightlife as Latinx excess. Section 6: Drag and postcolonialism: Anything but Blackface 29. "Can you get more American than Native American?": Drag and settler colonialism in RuPaul's Drag Race 30. Inevitable face: the elegant opacity in the fabulation of masculinity 31. Russian drag as practices of self-colonisation and decolonisation Section 7: Drag and Media: Watching me, watching you 32. Among Unicorns: Drag, queer activism and artistic production in the Middle East 33. Censoring Huysuz: Drag on Turkish tv and Infringement of cultural expression 34. Out of the bars and onto the screen: Drag in independent North American film of the 1970s 35. Carry on drag: Cross-dressing and the queer legacies of the Carry On franchise 36. Drag and the Eurovision Song Contest in Central and Eastern Europe Section 8: Drag as/and form: It's giving 37. Drag lyric / Lyric drag 38. The dramaturgy of drag / Drag as dramaturgy 39. Dragging the dishonourable gentleman: lip-synching England's C/conservative villains 40. Dragging AI: Techno temporalities towards queer futures 41. Becoming versus imitation: The Zizi Show - A deepfake drag cabaret