20 years after Paris Is Burning, this book offers a rare look at Ballroom culture - from the inside. This first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kins…
"Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and provi…
Contextualizes the documentary about the New York drag ball scene of the 1980s within the longer history of drag balls, practices of documentory, fervor of the culture wars, and issues of gender, sexuality, race, and class.
Contextualizes the documentary about the New York drag ball scene of the 1980s within the longer history of drag balls, practices of documentory, fervor of the culture wars, and issues of gender, sexuality, race, and class.