Femmes: Front and Center

Body Size;Race;Queer Femme Performers;Disability;Gay;Gender Identity;Drag Queens;Drag Kings;Queerness;Drag Performance;Body Acceptance;Photography;Art and Design;Arts

Kurzawa, KristinAnn Arbor ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Body Size;    Race;    Queer Femme Performers;    Disability;    Gay;    Gender Identity;    Drag Queens;    Drag Kings;    Queerness;    Drag Performance;    Body Acceptance;    Photography;    Art and Design;    Arts;   

Others  :  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/64059/2009_Kurzawa_MFA_Thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

瑞士|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

Kurzawa, 2AbstractFemmes Front and Center is a visual and textual inquiry into the dynamics of queer femmeperformers within the queer community. Visually, Femmes: Front and Center brings the viewerface to face with queer femme performers through large scale, color photographs framed inclassic, exhibition style. The exhibit reveals the intersections of gender identity, queerness, bodysize, race, and dis/ability. Femmes Front and Center, the written work, explores the history ofqueer performance culture from gay men and drag queens to drag kings to queer femme dragqueens. It theorizes that queer femme performers and dis/abled queer femmes are disruptingexisting paradigms of drag performance, gender identity, and body acceptance.