Drag Camp for Kids nurtures next generation of queens and kings (2024)

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What are the benefits of drag queen storytime? ›

Drag storytime can be important in starting conversations at a community level. Productive conversations about gender and family can be sparked, as well as what it means to be a marginalized community.

Drag is, at its heart, about self expression and empowerment. Yes, the most common interpretation of this is people we think of as men, dressing up in clothing we usually associate with women. But it isn't fundamentally about gender and never has been.

Drag queens are used to being judged and marginalized, but they still remain themselves. Drag queens teach us the importance of self-expression despite the societal push to shame those who are different, and they show us that we can be whoever we want to be.

Ashleigh Yule, a Calgary-based registered psychologist who specializes in child and adolescent mental health, says “the idea that drag is somehow bad is actually incorrect.” “From a developmental standpoint, kids have a very fluid understanding of gender,” she says.

Drag became a part of gay culture and a form of entertainment usually enjoyed by adults in bars. Typically, a drag show involves performers singing or lip-synching to songs while performing a pre-planned pantomime or dancing.

Drag Story Hour was created by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco in 2015. In 2017, the City of West Hollywood, through its Arts Division, funded the first Drag Story Hour at West Hollywood Library, which is part of LA County Public Library.

Opponents of the upcoming Drag Story Hour at the Lancaster Public Library expressed their outrage to the Lancaster County commissioners this week, saying the event is harmful to children and contrary to norms of public decency endorsed by the majority of the community.

An AFAB queen, diva queen or hyper queen is a drag queen who is a woman or a non-binary person who was assigned female at birth. These performers are generally indistinguishable from the more common male or transgender female drag queens in artistic style and techniques.

Also known as 'drag,' air resistance is a force caused by air. The air particles hit the front of an object, causing it to slow down. The greater the surface area, the greater the number of air particles hitting the object and the greater the overall resistance.

What does drag stand for? ›

"A folk etymology is that drag is an acronym of "Dressed Resembling A Girl" in description of male theatrical transvestism. Drag as a term referring to women's clothing worn by men has less clear origins.

“I would say I make the most money from performing and then the brunch. We make a lot of our money in tips at the brunches. I would say I make $500 and $600 per show in tips alone. And then we have a negotiated rate of the percentage of our bar sales, so that adds some on top.”

Some accounts suggest it was inspired by the petticoats the men wore that would drag on the floor as they performed. Around the same time in the United States, female impersonators starred in racist minstrel shows, during which mostly white actors wore blackface to portray racial stereotypes of African Americans.

Wearing clothes normally worn by the opposite sex, as in All of the actors in the revue were in drag . This expression originally alluded to male actors wearing women's apparel on stage, especially for comic purposes, but also refers to cross-dressing by hom*osexuals. [ Colloquial ; c.

We envision a world where kids can learn from LGBTQ+ stories and experiences to love themselves, celebrate the fabulous diversity in their communities, and stand up for what they believe in and each other.

According to Moncrieff and Lienard (2017), drag queens are individuals whose main goal is to make themselves look like they are representing the opposite sex to entertain an audience. A drag queen performance aims to challenge heteronormativity and hegemonic masculinity (Rupp et al. 2010).

READING is the art of ritual insult as practiced within communities of drag queens, transpeople, and queer people of color. I argue that READING is performed with a distinct rhythmic style that cues to the listener that the speaker has shifted into a more highly performative frame.