Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures The Rise and Fall of a Le
This book takes the globally recognised phenomenon of drag king performances as an opportunity for critical inquiry into the rise and fall of an urban scene for lesbian and queer women in Sydney, Australia (circa 1999-2012). Exploring how a series of
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KERRYN DRYSDALE
Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures “Intimate and invested, Drysdale produces a highly original study of the rise and fall of Sydney drag kings. Anyone who has been in or watched a show will love returning back to these scenes of desire with such a beautiful and critical eye. Making an original contribution to queer cultures, archives and memories, above all else Drysdale’s study reminds us why we loved our kings so passionately.” —Bobby J. Noble, York University, Canada “Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures is an important book about drag performance, identity, gentrification, intimate entanglements, forms of belonging and a great many other things. It is also a major step forward in our understanding of cultural scenes and the ways they change, fade and even disappear over time. More than anything else I’ve read, Drysdale’s book shows us the directions in which ‘scene studies’ need to go to remain vital and interesting.” —Will Straw, James, McGill University, Canada “This is a remarkable and timely examination of the way drag king scenes emerge, function and breakdown over time. More than a study of a vital subcultural community in Sydney, however, Drysdale’s work expands on our understanding of ‘scene thinking’ as a resource for mapping the materiality and ‘embodied thrill’ of affective communities in social space and time. Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures is a major contribution to global scholarship on lesbian subcultures and will be of tremendous interest to academic and non-academic communities alike.” —Stuart R. Poyntz, Simon Fraser University, Canada “Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures pulls us into the worlding of a Sydney drag king scene that came and went, sparking across bodies pressed together in an affective atmosphere that mattered. Drysdale brilliantly and beautifully lays out the lines of a fragile composition built on ephemera and hardened in social dramas, performed capacities, and an intimate attunement to the potential of the night. She shows us the animation of a present throwing together into something to be in.” —Kathleen C. Stewart, University of Texas, USA
“The drag king scene of Sydney once occupied a vibrant sliver of space and time—such a scene, yes quite!—that Kerryn Drysdale vividly conjures up with thorough-going critical attention and affection. So many traces, voices, smells, stories, feels, tensions, ephemera, places, and atmospheres are carefully sifted and folded together. Lovingly conveyed and theoretically nuanced, this work might well serve as a new model for ethnographic immersion and scenesetting, for performatively materializing an archive that sustains.” —Gregory J. Seigworth, Millersville University, USA “Tracking the ephemeral but compelling forms of drag king culture in Sydney in the early 21st century, Kerryn Drysdale’s book makes contributions to queer studies, subcultural histories and performance theory. Paying careful attention to the concept of the ‘scene’ and combining immersive research methods with case studi
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