[Linganth] Shaka McGlotten on his book Dragging

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the CaMP anthropology blog, Shaka McGlotten answers Robyn
Taylor-Neu's questions about his book, Dragging: Or in the Drag of a Queer
Life.

See the interview here:

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life is an assemblage of
fragments that collectively tell stories about a diverse group of artists
and activists for whom drag serves as inspiration, method, object, and aim.

Methodologically grounded in ethnography, *Dragging* incorporates
auto-theoretical material that lays bare the intimacies of research,
teaching, and loving, as well as their painful failures. Drag is more than
gender impersonation, and it is more than resistance to norms. It is
productively messy and ambivalent, and in these and other ways can serve to
attune us to political and aesthetic alternatives to the increasingly
widespread desire to be led.

One of very few books about drag by an anthropologist, and using a uniquely
personal approach, *Dragging *is an ethnography of artists and activists.
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