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What’s Live Got to Do with It?

Digital Drag in the Time of Covid-19

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Cameron Crookston
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Abstract

With Covid-19 closure of performance spaces, drag performers were in a unique position due to the historic relationship between queer performance and recorded media, and the history of LGBTQ2+ community building through social media. Rather than — or perhaps in addition to—constituting a moment of rupture, the sudden phenomenon of digital drag presents a vital moment for revealing the relationship among liveness, media, and citational reproduction in drag’s history.

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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 131 - 146
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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