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Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour

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The Queer Camp Curriculum

Drag queen story hour embraces a kind of camp curriculum. Camp, like drag, cannot be defined or explicitly taught. In Susan Sontag's 1964 formative essay, she refers to camp as a quote sensibility. The revolution will come through antonomian and clownish forms. By challenging the implicit rules of the school, it's funny when you shits yourself, kid. Every school needs it. It's fun. Why are you so stiff?

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