{"id":1735,"date":"2013-10-01T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offtheshelfandonline.blog\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2013-10-08T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:16:22","slug":"dressing-up-in-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Dressing Up in Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that a drag show is anything but a drag. When I went to shoot Natural Sound piece at Chester Street Bar in Champaign, IL., I thought I knew everything there was to know about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drag_queen#Drag_shows_and_venues\">drag shows<\/a>: Men, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trans_woman\">transgender women<\/a>, dress up in women&#8217;s clothing and paint their faces with makeup so that they look like really attractive, glamorous women. They then perform (at the time I wasn&#8217;t exactly sure what &#8220;perform&#8221; meant in this context) and usually choose a stage name. These men\/women are called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drag_queen\">Drag Queens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And while all of my background knowledge is true, there was so much more to the show than I thought there would be. I learned that there are also drag Kings (gay men who dress up in costume but do not try to look like women) and that every Drag Queen and King is a part of a drag family, including brothers, sisters, mother, fathers and even cousins. While I didn&#8217;t have enough time to put everything I learned into my Nat. Sound piece, I still captured the essence of a drag show on film. You can check my video out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vMs50yH5MRs\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/offtheshelfandonline.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-01-at-9.30.24-PM.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1740\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-10-01 at 9.30.24 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/offtheshelfandonline.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-01-at-9.30.24-PM-300x267.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-01-at-9.30.24-PM-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-shot-2013-10-01-at-9.30.24-PM.png 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that a drag show is anything but a drag. When I went to shoot Natural Sound piece at Chester Street Bar in Champaign, IL., I thought I knew everything there was to know about drag shows: Men, or transgender women, dress up in women&#8217;s clothing and paint their faces with makeup so<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/?p=1735\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Dressing Up in Drag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall2013-j410-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}