Thesiss

In the summer of 2012, I returned to Indonesia, my home country, to do a research on drag performers in three major cities: Jakarta, Jogjakarta, and Denpasar. In Indonesia, the lives of drag performers are inseparable from gay clubs and gay culture itself. I was fortunate to cat…

This thesis examines what drag is for drag queens and shifts the scholarly conversation from its previous two central efforts: theorizing drag performance and analyzing media representations of drag. I build upon the theoretical concepts and media representations of drag through…

A drag queen is as American Dream as a suburban house surrounded by a white picket fence. Drag performance is more than entertainment in a night club: it is a way of expressing, dreaming, commenting, and escaping the crippling reality. For many, doing drag is their only way to a…