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Category Is: Religious “Realness” A Consideration Of Disparate Subjectivity Via “Rupauline Drag” And The House Of Labeija, Joss Rae Willsbrough
Category Is: Religious “Realness” A Consideration Of Disparate Subjectivity Via “Rupauline Drag” And The House Of Labeija, Joss Rae Willsbrough
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The project considers the disparity between two case studies of “drag:” 1) “RuPauline drag” (RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul, and affiliated properties), and 2) the House of LaBeija as a microcosm of ballroom drag, an international phenomenon comprised predominantly by queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) competing in self-hosted “balls.” These “cases” are assessed as ideal texts, that is, ideal types (heuristic and reductive) which are interpreted as texts (via hermeneutical methodology) in hopes of comparing the cases for the subjectivities they foster and the orientations they promulgate. This work begins with a comparison of the “cases” via the settings …