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Craig Seligman's "Who Does That Bitch Think She is? Doris Fish and The Rise of Drag"

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The Importance of Drag in Contemporary Culture

It was just such a wonderful story and Doris fish is such an inspiration. And it's also a wonderful deep dive into the gorgeously glam, but also rough and tumble world of San Francisco and Sydney drag. So that was just super fun. Yeah, and I think it's as much as drag has been assimilated now into culture. It's also interesting to read this book and reflect on when it was more marginal or, you know, more almost like an antagonistic where it was kind of punk bothering people.

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