Hunter, Max (2022) Transgender Drag, Transgender Joy: A Non-Binary Approach to Creating Joy Through Drag Performance. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
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Abstract
This thesis explores the potential for drag performance to be a tool for trans performers to create and amplify joy in embodying drag characters and developing them as practices over time. In this inquiry, I centre my own drag practice in order to engage in an autoethnographic perspective on drag performance that draws from both my lived experience and practice. Grounded in a performance creation component, this research uses my experience as a non-binary, trans drag performer to depart from analyzing drag performance solely within the realm of gender, and instead considering how it is situated in relation to joy. I contextualise the performance creation component with theoretical works on gaiety, utopia, failure, Camp, gender, and drag, in addition to drawing from my lived experience. I articulate how my lived experiences are intertwined with my drag practice, through an illustrated notebook component which builds towards the creation of a drag costume, which I then wear in a documented rehearsal that tests the effects of the costume. Through this work, I aim to expand notions of what drag can be for trans performers as both artists and individuals, and attempt to understand how its effects can be a means for creating joy outside of drag.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > School of Graduate Studies > Individualized Program |
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
| Authors: | Hunter, Max |
| Institution: | Concordia University |
| Degree Name: | M.A. |
| Program: | Individualized Program |
| Date: | 2022 |
| Thesis Supervisor(s): | Willkie, Angélique |
| Keywords: | transgender, drag, trans, non-binary, drag queen, drag performance, gender, performance, gender performance, queer theory, queer, research creation, autoethnography, mixed media, camp, joy, embodiment |
| ID Code: | 990484 |
| Deposited By: | Max Hunter |
| Deposited On: | 16 Jun 2022 14:44 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2022 14:44 |
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