Contents

Foreword

KATE BORNSTEIN

On Philosophers and Drag Queens

HENDRIK KEMPT AND MEGAN VOLPERT

Category Is … Speak, Think, Read, Werk

1.  RuPaul Is a Better Warhol

MEGAN VOLPERT

2.  Reading Is Fundamental

LUCY MC DONALD

3.  What Should a Queen Do?

MARTA SZNAJDER

4.  Is It Immoral to Read Someone to Filth?

RUTGER BIRNIE

Category Is … The Reality of It All

5.  RuPaul versus Zarathustra

ALICE AND JULIE VAN DER WIELEN

6.  Looking for Realness

DAWN R. GILPIN AND PETER NAGY

7.  The Sublime Sabotage of the Inner Saboteur

SANDRA RYAN

8.  Playing with Glitter

FERNANDO GABRIEL PAGNONI BERNS , MARIANA ZÁRATE, AND LEONARDO ACOSTA LANDO

Category Is … Drag Race Family Values

9.  Another Wig Underneath

ANNELIESE COOPER

10.  And the Rest Is Drag?

OLIVER NORMAN

11.  Lip Sync for Your Life

GUILEL TREIBER

12.  The Importance of Being Fabulous

HOLLY ONCLIN

Category Is … Learning from the Queens

13.  The Origins of Self-Love

ANNA MARIE FENNELL

14.  You Want Some Privacy? You Better Work

ALICE FOX

15.  Fire WERK with Me

CAROLINA ARE

16.  Death Becomes Her

HENDRIK KEMPT

Bibliography

Trading Cards: Philosophers as Drag Queens

Squirrel Friends

Index