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Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour

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Drag Queen's Story Hour: A Queer Relationship With Children

Many queens reflect drag queen's story hour allows them to build relationships with young people that otherwise wouldn't be possible. Queer theory has generally reflected pessimism about the future and some queer theorists have rejected the compulsory reproductivity that children often represent in society. We offer that the kinship created by drag, drag pedagogy might offer a way of thinking beyond both the cruel optimism and potential utopias of the horizon to consider how alternate worlds are being made in the here and now.

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