Transvestism Around the World Limited Edition … Number One Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/transvestismarou00unse Contents: Bambi Coccinelle Carrousel Club Terry Durham Ricky René Shalimar Madame Arthur’s (Paris) Madame Arthur’s (Amsterdam)
“Claude Cahun (1894-1954) was a poet, performer, resistance fighter, prisoner, Surrealist, “constructor and explorer of objects,” photographer, and “queer freak” who invented her life by flaunting the interchangability of roles and playing with the ambivalence of identity. Whether feigning vulnerability on the arm of her lover and stepsister Suzanne Malherbe aka Marcel Moore (“the other…
Online readable version of a zine documenting the counter protest to the CAN-SG torturers’ conference in London.
Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past…
For two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens—homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton spent time in the noisy bars, the chaotic dressing rooms, and the cheap apartments and hotels that make up the lives of drag queens, interviewing informants whose trust she had earned and compiling…
This special edition issue by Mohamad Abdouni, co-edited by Joy Stacey and Rayan Abdel Khalek, is a public archive that compiles studio shoots, interviews, personal photographs and archival imagery to record the untold stories of ten trans* women living in Beirut. It pays tribute to trans* women and femme men who have been largely erased…
Female Mimics magazine were published between 1963 and 1979. They feature photographs and profiles of “female impersonators.”This magazine featuring Bambi (Marie-Pierre Pruvot), Bunny Lake, Emilio Tellez, Jewel Box Revue.
This photo essay was developed from images and narratives shared by LGBTQ youth who participated in a Photovoice project (Smith, Gensemer, Smith, & Swint 2016). The photographs used here were taken by 6 trans, genderqueer, and agender youth who gave their permission for the images to be used for scholarly purposes.
What is a drag king? Why have drag kings not been as numerous or as popular as their drag queen counterparts in popular culture? Are drag kings lesbians? The Drag King Book tells you everything you’ve wanted to know and more about the lives and performances of contemporary male impersonators. The book profiles many different…
In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of…