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Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour

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The Drag Queen of Oz: From Empathy to Enembodied Kinship

Drag performers do not necessarily seek identification with another, but rather to experience ways of embodying and expressing different aspects of themselves. Drag pedagogy brings a sense of queerness more robustly into the classroom,. Not merely by teaching about Harvey Milker, Sylvia Rivera, but through an embodied and effective process. Rather than attempting to understand what it's like to be LGBT, well, that myth is busted, isn't it? The opportunity to learn to redefine yourself, to live clearly, through a groomer, dressed as a woman in a highly sexually provocative way. In the classroom, this queer dress up might create more opportunities for young people to experiment with how and why seemingly arbitrary changes

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