The Big Reveal
Book description
"Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us-the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived."
-Sasha Velour
This book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art. Within these pages, illustrated…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Big Reveal as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a joyous book about living differently in difficult times, a utopian “manifesto” about the power of art.
The book is partly a global history of “drag,” partly a personal memoir about growing up “gender queer” and becoming a drag queen, and partly a book of ideas and stories. The author is the winner of the ninth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, an internationally known performer, and a cartoonist who recently did a New Yorker cover—of herself.
I found lots of bold hope in this book, lots of love and magic. The personal is political, feminists have long argued,…
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