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Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour

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CHAPTER

The History of Drag

The practice of drag and otherwise refashioning gender long predate the current terminology used to describe humans experience. We offer a brief background on drag analyzing it not only in terms of its gender disruptions, but also its own vernacular pedagogies and community engagement. In the second half of the article, we describe the kinds of knowledge that drag pedagogy can share with children of all ages,. five and up, three and up, where we focus on five interrelated themes: play as praxis, aesthetic transformation, strategic defiance, camp and its relationship to stigma.

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