{"product_id":"decolonize-drag-paperback-1","title":"Decolonize Drag - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKareem Khubchandani\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBhakti Shringarpure\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlthough imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstream--largely due to the intense, global popularity of reality TV competition \u003cem\u003eRuPaul's Drag Race\u003c\/em\u003e--some kinds of gender-based performance fall out of the purview of what we (could) call drag.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDecolonize Drag\u003c\/em\u003e details the ways that gender is used as a form of colonial governance to eliminate various types of expression, and tracks how contemporary drag, including that on \u003cem\u003eDrag Race\u003c\/em\u003e, both replicates and disrupts these institutional hierarchies. This book focuses on several gender performers that resist and laugh at colonial projects through their aesthetic practices. It also features the voice of Khubchandani's drag alter ego, judgmental South Asian aunty LaWhore Vagistan. From the firsthand perspective of a drag artist, LaWhore describes encounters with depoliticized versions of drag that leave her disappointed and perplexed, and prompts Khubchandani for context and analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir dynamic sets the tone for the book, investigating how drag--and gender more broadly--has been privatized and delimited so that it's only available to certain people. \u003cem\u003eDecolonize Drag\u003c\/em\u003e argues for more abundance in and access to fashioning gender, and considers how drag changes meaning and efficacy as it shifts across geographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKareem Khubchandani\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor in the department of theater, dance, and performance studies at Tufts University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eIshtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife\u003c\/em\u003e, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eQueer Nightlife \u003c\/em\u003e and editor of the \u003cem\u003eTPQ \u003c\/em\u003especial issue\u003cem\u003e Critical Aunty Studies\u003c\/em\u003e. His writing appears in \u003cem\u003eScholar and Feminist Online\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTransgender Studies Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSAMAJ\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSouth Asia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Asian American Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eVelvet Light Trap\u003c\/em\u003e. Khubchandani performs in drag as LaWhore Vagistan who interweaves storytelling, standup comedy, body art, theater, and digital media.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBhakti Shringarpure\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, academic and founding editor of Warscapes magazine. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eCold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital\u003c\/em\u003e and a regular contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAfrica is a Country\u003c\/em\u003e. She currently runs the Radical Books Collective which pushes for an alternative, inclusive and non-commercial approach to books and reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 6.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47355121369337,"sku":"9781682193952","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/AUiODDQZmJ9781682193952_6de5d160-338c-4be2-8a52-05da20ab7514.webp?v=1769848773","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/decolonize-drag-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}