Reading is fun-da-mental: Queering queer ‘safe’ spaces within drag culture

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Difference-in-itself; representation; reading; safe spaces; RuPaul’s Drag Race; Gender and Sexuality; Reading and Language
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3588; https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2062411
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper explores how the queer subcultural practice of ‘reading’ can pave the way for a more ontologically open way of being. Reading involves the trading of insults between two or more marginal subjects in ways that create comedic value by identifying and parodying representational norms. It rev...