Download or read book Introduction to RuPaul s Drag Race season 15 written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RuPaul's Drag Race, a popular American reality television show that celebrates the art of drag, is back with its 15th season. The show has a brand new cast of queens, all of whom are competing to become America's next drag superstar. The season kicks off with some spectacular performances, with each queen attempting to make a mark on the judging panel. The show features some of the country's most talented drag performers, who showcase their skills in a number of challenges and lip sync battles. Some of the challenges that the queens will have to overcome this season include acting, singing, dancing, comedy, and fashion design. In each episode, the queens will be judged on their performances by a panel of judges, which includes host RuPaul, as well as guest judges from the worlds of fashion, entertainment, and the LGBTQ+ community. The losing queen of each episode will have to lip sync for her life against another queen, with the winner being allowed to stay in the competition. The show is widely known for its fierce competition, high fashion, and memorable catchphrases. Drag Race has become a cultural phenomenon over the years, and the 15th season promises to be just as entertaining and exciting as the previous ones. In this book we discuss topics such as: Introduction: Background on RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 15 overview Contestants: Meet the queens, Queen bios Challenges: Mini challenges, Main challenges, Guest judges Runway: Themes, Looks Drama: Confessionals, Backstage moments Eliminations: Lipsync for your life, Untucked Winners: Episode winners, Season winner Impact: Diversity and representation, Pop culture influence Future of the show: Speculation for future seasons, Fan theories Conclusion: Reflection on season 15 and Final thoughts on RuPaul's Drag Race. Quizzes are provided at the end of each section.
Download or read book Introduction to RuPaul s Drag Race season 15 written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RuPaul's Drag Race, a popular American reality television show that celebrates the art of drag, is back with its 15th season. The show has a brand new cast of queens, all of whom are competing to become America's next drag superstar. The season kicks off with some spectacular performances, with each queen attempting to make a mark on the judging panel. The show features some of the country's most talented drag performers, who showcase their skills in a number of challenges and lip sync battles. Some of the challenges that the queens will have to overcome this season include acting, singing, dancing, comedy, and fashion design. In each episode, the queens will be judged on their performances by a panel of judges, which includes host RuPaul, as well as guest judges from the worlds of fashion, entertainment, and the LGBTQ+ community. The losing queen of each episode will have to lip sync for her life against another queen, with the winner being allowed to stay in the competition. The show is widely known for its fierce competition, high fashion, and memorable catchphrases. Drag Race has become a cultural phenomenon over the years, and the 15th season promises to be just as entertaining and exciting as the previous ones. In this book we discuss topics such as: Introduction: Background on RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 15 overview Contestants: Meet the queens, Queen bios Challenges: Mini challenges, Main challenges, Guest judges Runway: Themes, Looks Drama: Confessionals, Backstage moments Eliminations: Lipsync for your life, Untucked Winners: Episode winners, Season winner Impact: Diversity and representation, Pop culture influence Future of the show: Speculation for future seasons, Fan theories Conclusion: Reflection on season 15 and Final thoughts on RuPaul's Drag Race. Quizzes are provided at the end of each section.
Download or read book RuPaul s Drag Race and the Cultural Politics of Fame written by John Mercer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the connections between drag stardom and contemporary sexual and cultural politics in the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise. With Drag Race alumni achieving fame in fields such as music, fashion, theatre and beyond, this edited collection interrogates the relationships between gender, sexuality, performance, identity and celebrity culture that lie at the very heart of the show. RuPaul’s Drag Race has recently completed its 15th season after having won 26 Emmys. The show is a popular culture phenomenon, broadcasting drag into the homes of middle America, spawning spin off shows and an ever-expanding international franchise. Its success has made global stars of its host, guest judges and contestants alike. This edited collection explores the connections between drag stardom and contemporary sexual and cultural politics that RuPaul’s Drag Race stages and dramatizes. Alumni of Drag Race have gone on to become globally famous. Adore Delano and Sharon Needles have launched music careers. Violet Chachki is the first drag model to become the face of Bettie Page Lingerie whilst Jinkx Monsoon has achieved success as a Broadway star. In 2017 RuPaul was named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. Above everything else RuPaul’s Drag Race is a show about celebrating the glamour, artifice and the labour of fame. Whilst Drag Race has already attracted scholarly attention (Brennan & Gudelunas eds. 2017) the relationships between gender, sexuality, performance, identity and celebrity culture that lie at the heart of its dynamic and appeal remain to be explored. RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Cultural Politics of Fame will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Media and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Performing Arts, Media and Film Studies, Communication Studies and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Celebrity Studies.
Download or read book RuPedagogies of Realness written by Lindsay Bryde and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pencils down--graphite and eyebrow--and eyes to front of the room for this one-of-a-kind lesson. Since debuting over a decade ago, the world of RuPaul's Drag Race has steadily collected both popular and academic interests. This collection of original essays presents insightful analyses and a range of critical perspectives on Drag Race from across the globe. Topics covered include language and linguistics, cultural appropriation, racism, health, wealth, the realities of reality television, digital drag and naked bodies. Though varied in topical focus, each essay centers public pedagogy to examine what and how Drag Race teaches its audience. The goal of this book is to frame Drag Race as a classroom, one that is helpful for both teachers and students alike. With an academic-yet-accessible tone and an interdisciplinary approach, essays celebrate and examine the show and its spin-offs from the earliest seasons to the very start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Download or read book Musicals at the Margins written by Julie Lobalzo Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But is it a musical? This question is regularly asked of films, television shows and other media objects that sit uncomfortably in the category despite evident musical connections. Musicals at the Margins argues that instead of seeking to resolve such questions, we should leave them unanswered and unsettled, proposing that there is value in examining the unstable edges of genre. This collection explores the marginal musical in a diverse range of historical and global contexts. It encompasses a range of different forms of marginality including boundary texts (films/media that are sort of/not quite musicals), musical sequences (marginalized sequences in musicals; musical sequences in non-musicals), music films, musicals of the margins (musicals produced from social, cultural, geographical, and geopolitical margins), and musicals across media (television and new media). Ultimately these essays argue that marginal genre texts tell us a great deal about the musical specifically and genre more broadly.
Download or read book Sissy written by Harry Thomas and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative exploration of postwar representations of effeminate men and boys.
Download or read book Who Is RuPaul written by Nico Medina and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how this Emmy-winning host, producer, and television personality became the world's most famous drag queen. RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular and long-running show RuPaul's Drag Race, which has raised the profile of the art of drag, and drag queens around the world.
Download or read book The Essential Fan Guide to Rupaul s Drag Race written by John Davis and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Essential Fan Guide to RuPaul's Drag Race celebrates all the queens that have sashayed the runway from seasons 1 to 9 and All Stars, as well as memorable drag terms, inspiring quotes from RuPaul, and stats and facts on all those sickening lip-sync battles"--Back cover.
Download or read book RuPaul s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture written by Niall Brennan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies and analyzes the ways in which RuPaul’s Drag Race has reshaped the visibility of drag culture in the US and internationally, as well as how the program has changed understandings of reality TV. This edited volume illustrates how drag has become a significant aspect of LGBTQ experience and identity globally through RuPaul’s Drag Race, and how the show has reformed a media landscape in which competition and reality itself are understood as given. Taking on lenses addressing race, ethnicity, geographical origin, cultural identity, physicality and body image, and participation in drag culture across the globe, this volume offers critical, non-traditional, and first-hand perspectives on drag culture.
Download or read book Workin It written by RuPaul and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workin’ It!, the new book from world-renowned recording artist, television host, and drag queen RuPaul, provides helpful and provocative tips on fashion, beauty, style, and confidence for girls and boys, both straight and gay—and everyone in between! No one knows more about life, self-expression, and style than the host of the hit LOGO series "RuPaul’s Drag Race," and Workin’ It! picks up right where the show leaves off. More than just a style guide, Workin’ It! is a navigation system through the bumpy road of life. Let RuPaul teach you the tried, tested, and found-true techniques that will propel you from background player to shining star!
Download or read book Sexuality in Marketing and Consumption written by Athanasia Daskalopoulou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an in-depth examination of the role of sexuality in consumers’ life course and in the marketing of products and services. Leading scholars in the field define the most up-to-date picture of theories of sexuality in marketing and consumer research, mapping the topic through diverse theoretical lenses, addressing queer and feminist research, and putting sexuality and consumption in context. The book brings together leading international marketing scholars to build on the growing interest in theories of sexuality, queer theory, and intersectionality, which are gaining more interest among institutions and researchers interested in equality and diversity. While this book builds on existing expertise in consumer culture scholarship, it is the first time a marketing book focuses on sexuality, adding value to the existing repertoire in gender and feminist literature. The chapters are organised into three key sections: Part 1 maps the marketing and consumer research field, discussing how sexuality can be studied through different lenses; Part 2 focuses on queer and feminist theorising, drawing on LGBTQIA+ theory, queer theory, and theories of intersectionality to analyse how overlapping social categories interact to influence consumer behaviour, identity, and experiences in the marketplace; and Part 3 explores the personal and social aspects of sexuality, offering a broad overview of issues of gender and sexuality, digitalisation, and the sexual body. This text will be of direct interest to scholars and researchers within the fields of marketing, consumer research, sociology, and media studies. The aim of this book is to help scholars and students to develop a broader understanding about the interplay between sexuality, society, and the market.
Download or read book Appified written by Jeremy W Morris and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snapchat. WhatsApp. Ashley Madison. Fitbit. Tinder. Periscope. How do we make sense of how apps like these-and thousands of others-have embedded themselves into our daily routines, permeating the background of ordinary life and standing at-the-ready to be used on our smartphones and tablets? When we look at any single app, it's hard to imagine how such a small piece of software could be particularly notable. But if we look at a collection of them, we see a bigger picture that reveals how the quotidian activities apps encompass are far from banal: connecting with friends (and strangers and enemies), sharing memories (and personally identifying information), making art (and trash), navigating spaces (and reshaping places in the process). While the sheer number of apps is overwhelming, as are the range of activities they address, each one offers an opportunity for us to seek out meaning in the mundane. Appified is the first scholarly volume to examine individual apps within the wider historical and cultural context of media and cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity and the everyday.
Download or read book Kenyan Christian Queer written by Adriaan van Klinken and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular narratives cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as incompatible. Without denying Christianity’s contribution to the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of same-sex-attracted and gender-variant people on the continent, Adriaan van Klinken presents an alternative narrative, foregrounding the ways in which religion also appears as a critical site of LGBT activism. Taking up the notion of “arts of resistance,” Kenyan, Christian, Queer presents four case studies of grassroots LGBT activism through artistic and creative expressions—including the literary and cultural work of Binyavanga Wainaina, the “Same Love” music video produced by gay gospel musician George Barasa, the Stories of Our Lives anthology project, and the LGBT-affirming Cosmopolitan Affirming Church. Through these case studies, Van Klinken demonstrates how Kenyan traditions, black African identities, and Christian beliefs and practices are being navigated, appropriated, and transformed in order to allow for queer Kenyan Christian imaginations. Transdisciplinary in scope and poignantly intimate in tone, Kenyan, Christian, Queer opens up critical avenues for rethinking the nature and future of the relationship between Christianity and queer activism in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.
Download or read book Percy s Little Black Book written by Wingman Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep a record of all the girls that catch your eye!
Download or read book Translocas written by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul’s Drag Race; films such as Paris Is Burning, The Salt Mines, and Mala Mala; and literary works by authors such as Mayra Santos-Febres and Manuel Ramos Otero. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a drag performer himself, demonstrates how each destabilizes (and sometimes reifies) dominant notions of gender and sexuality through drag and their embodied transgender expression. These performances provide a means to explore and critique issues of race, class, poverty, national identity, and migratory displacement while they posit a relationship between audiences and performers that has a ritual-like, communal dimension. The book also analyzes the murders of Jorge Steven López Mercado and Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico, and invites readers to challenge, question, and expand their knowledge about queer life, drag, trans performance, and Puerto Rican identity in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The author also pays careful attention to transgender experience, highlighting how trans activists and performers mold their bodies, promote social change, and create community in a context that oscillates between glamour and abjection.
Download or read book GuRu written by RuPaul and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREWORD BY JANE FONDA A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the world’s most famous shape-shifter RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented career for more than thirty-five years. GuRu is packed with more than 80 beautiful photographs that illustrate the concept of building the life you want from the outside in and the inside out. "You’re born naked and the rest is drag." As someone who has deconstructed life’s hilarious facade, RuPaul has broken "the fourth wall" to expand on the concept of mind, body, and spirit. This unique perspective has allowed RuPaul to break the shackles of self-imposed limitations, but reader beware, this is a daily practice that requires diligence and touchstones to keep you walking in the sunshine of the spirit. Once you’re willing to look beyond the identity that was given to you, a hidden world of possibilities will open its doors. Throughout the history of humans on this planet, there’ve always been shaman, seers, and mediums who are able to interpret both high and low frequencies and remind humans to look beyond the surface for the truth of who we really are. And who we really are is an extension of the power that created the universe (aka: God in drag). FYI: most people are not willing to hear or accept that. That is RuPaul’s secret for success, not only in show business, but in all aspects of life, especially in navigating the emotional landmines that inhibit most sweet, sensitive souls. If you think this book is just about "doing drag," you are sorely mistaken because for RuPaul, drag is merely a device to deactivate the identity-based ego and allow space for the unlimited.
Download or read book Blame It On Bianca Del Rio written by Bianca Del Rio and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uproarious advice and never-before-seen color photos from drag queen extraordinaire Bianca Del Rio The cheeky, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic—"The Joan Rivers of the Drag World," (New York Times)—who isn’t afraid to shock or offend brings her trademark acerbic wit and sharp commentary to the page in an illustrated collection of advice. When it comes to insult comics, Bianca Del Rio is in a class by herself. Fierce, funny, and fabulous—a would-be love child sired by John Waters and birthed by Joan Rivers—Bianca sandblasted her name in the annals of pop culture on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Thanks to her snarky frankness, impeccable comedic timing, and politically incorrect humor, she became the show’s breakout star, winning its sixth season. In Blame It On Bianca Del Rio, Bianca shares her opinions loudly and proudly, offering raucous, hilarious, no-holds-barred commentary on the everyday annoyances, big and small, that color her world, and make it a living, albeit amusing, hell for anyone who inhabits it. A collection of biting advice filled with vibrant photos from Bianca’s twisted universe, Blame It On Bianca Del Rio will shock you and keep you laughing. But be warned: it is not for the faint of heart!
