
Craig Seligman's "Who Does That Bitch Think She is? Doris Fish and The Rise of Drag"
LA Review of Books
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The Politics of Gay Mecha in Sydney and San Francisco
San Francisco and Sydney, while Doris is there, are undergoing dramatic transformations that make them both gay mecha's in ways that they had not exactly been or were not in the same hypervisible way before. Can you talk about how those changes across two continents kind of shaped Doris's aesthetic? We'll talk a little bit later about the politics as they are, but also the kind of possibilities for a person like Doris that is at once making the new culture in both of those places, but also produced by it.
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