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Posted inCulture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

“This Is the Glittering Fringe”: On Drag Inclusivity at the Rosemont

by Krista Stevens April 4, 2019October 19, 2022

‘“The drag here is messy, not vanilla,’ one regular tells me over the din. He sips his drink and settles on a word. ‘Genuine.'”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ the Most Radical Show on TV?

by Sari Botton January 25, 2018October 19, 2022

In her first cover piece for the New York Times magazine, Jenna Wortham profiles RuPaul, making note of the ways in which he — and his 9-year-old reality competition TV show — have had to evolve along with shifting understandings of gender, and the politics around it.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Unapologetic Women

Conservative Values, Meet Drag Values

by Catherine Cusick July 11, 2017October 19, 2022

RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Velour responds to a divisive political climate by celebrating beauty, brains, and belonging.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Transformative Power of Dressing in Drag

by A. N. Devers March 16, 2015October 19, 2022

The excellent and underfunded nonprofit art and politics magazine Guernica has a special issue this month dedicated to exploring the boundaries of gender. In it, novelist Alexander Chee writes about the surprising realizations he had the first time he dressed in drag for a night on the town with the man he loves: He is really spellbound, though, in a […]

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