Hendrik Kempt is a Research Associate, FoKoS, University Siegen in Germany. He has authored several forthcoming articles on morality and AI. Megan Volpert is the author of many books on communication and popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists. After seven years as a nationally competitive debater, she competed in poetry slams for several more. Her MFA in Creative Writing is from Louisiana State University and she writes regularly for PopMatters. She has been teaching high school English in Atlanta for over a decade and was 2014 Teacher of the Year. She edited the American Library Association-honored anthology This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching. She is co-editor of RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy (2020). Foreword author Kate Bornstein is known as the original "Gender Outlaw."

CONTENTS

Foreword by Sasha Velour



Introduction



1. That's All! The Incompossible Vixen by
Kyler Chittick



2. We're All Born Naked and the Rest Is Drag by
Oliver Norman



3. Exploring drag culture and performance with Friedrich Nietzsche by
Ben Glaister



4. Fire WERK With Me: Media Subcultures Crossover into Meta-Entertainment by
Carolina Are



5. Playing with Glitter by
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Mariana Zárate, and Leonardo Acosta



6. You Want to be Anonymous? You Better Work by
Alice Fox



7. Like God in Drag by
Julie van der Wielen, Alice van der Wielen, and Anna Heuer Hansen



8. Performance and the Real by
Dawn Gilpin and Peter Nagy



9. RuPaul's Drag Race as Femme-Queer Utopia Reality by
Samantha Wesch



10. Searching for Reality in Drag Race by
Sandra Ryan



11. Debunking the Femininity of Female Impersonation by
Holly Onclin



12. Reading Is Fundamental by
Lucy McDonald



13. The Origins of Self-Love by
Anna Fennell



14. Eliminate Your Strongest Competition? The Social Dynamics of All Stars by
Marta Sznajder



15. If You Can't Love Yourself: On Drag and Vulnerability by
Anneliese Cooper



16. Drag Queens and Mall Santas: Performing and Performing Performance by
Benjamin Stalnaker



17. Lip-Sync for Your Life by
Guilel Treiber



18. The Library Is Open: The Ethics of RuPaul's Reading by
Rutger Birnie



19. RuPaul Is a Better Warhol: Pop and the Ethical Judgment of Realness by
Megan Volpert



20. Flazéda and the Meaning of Words by
Hendrik Kempt

Bibliography


About the Authors


Index