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Article published In: Journal of Language and Sexuality
Vol. 3:2 (2014) ► pp.261–308

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Identity and performance

An ethnographic approach to drag king performance through a corporal itinerary

 | University of Barcelona, Catalunya, Spanish State
Published online: 8 August 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.3.2.05bar
The vital political processes of those who perform drag king acquire consciousness from historicity but they are also oriented towards the margins of the (hetero) normative construction of feminine subjectivity, independently from any self-definition in relation to gender identities and erotic-sexual desires. Drag king performance is not a linear process, whose practices are simply justified by feminisms and transfeminisms. Drag king performance becomes a site of movement where feminisms and transfeminisms support familiar and unfamiliar practices of resistance. This article draws from conversations with a person who performs drag king in Barcelona and aims to give an overview about how this resistance is not only discursive, but also somatic and corporal.
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