Meredith Heller, "Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending" (Indiana UP, 2020)
New Books in LGBTQ+ Studies
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'Sexless Performances'
The archives of the el tiatro compassino were closed until two thousand nine. When i saw these rolls, i just thought, like, this is drag, right? This is absolutely ginder bending. So in one way, they're doing something very queer on stage. In the other way, theyre it's really hard for me to explain how this is dragged, because they're not contrasting it to their body. And so i use this model of revisionary gender bending. Like all actors are human and you're performing something human. I was also trying to develop a consciousness from gluas messes la frontiera specifically about chicana women. They're part of white people
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