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Big-Girls Don’t Cry: Portrayals of the Fat Body in RuPaul’s Drag Race

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Ami Pomerantz
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RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture
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Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Pomerantz follows RuPaul’s Drag Race’s attitudes toward fat contestants: the Big-Girls. He discovers that the show exhibits a polyphony of voices regarding the larger queens: among supportive statements of fat pride lurks bad old fatphobia and sizeism. Within these conflicting values the fat drag queens must deploy strategies to cope and resist. Being drag queens, they are prevented from using masculine gay male methods (for example those developed within the “Bear” communities). Instead they turn to feminine and feminist strategies and re-appropriate them to fit their size.

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next chapter “I Am the Drag Whisperer”: Notes from the Front Line of a Cultural Phenomenon
Title
Big-Girls Don’t Cry: Portrayals of the Fat Body in RuPaul’s Drag Race
Author
Ami Pomerantz
Copyright Year
2017
Book
RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-50617-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-50618-0

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50618-0_8
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