Dr Vicki Crowley
School of Communication, Information and New Media
University of South Australia
v.crowley@unisa.edu.au
Vicki is a Senior Lecturer based at the Magill Campus. Her most recent publications have focused on the politics of gender and sexualities especially as they are reconfigured around the cultural politics of female masculinity, transgender and intersex.
"Clothes Maketh the Man": Fashion, Gender and the Urban Drag King
Just how cutting edge is queer? From the runway to the streets of suburbia, from trans king to drag king, bear man and cowboy, Drag Kings are keen to make an appearance, make an impression and offer critical insights into the worlds of gender, consumption and the politics of style. Within the worlds of Drag Kings and Kinging, style is critically important to making a good impression while offering wilful and playful commentary on regulating the corporeal. How do clothes disturb the body and bodies disturb the clothes? This paper presents an annotated and reflexive slide show where Drag Kings display and analyse the importance of fashion and stylisation in a political practice that falls across style wars, activism, the meanings and making of genders, sexualities and its representations through the performative.
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