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The Fawkulty Is Gagging: College Offering Course On "RuPaul's Drag Race"

Out.com reports students will watch episodes of RPDR, as well as view drag-bible documentary Paris is Burning, and familiarize themselves with Ru's self-help tome, Workin’ It: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Style.

As [Drag Race] brings the art of drag performance and issues attendant to contemporary queer subcultures to a wide audience, the course will consider how it addresses histories of drag and U.S. gay culture, as well as a broad range of issues such as transgender identity, HIV/AIDS, bullying and violence, racial identity, gender identity, body size, and LGBT political activism.

Students will consider claims about the transformative, recuperative, and empowering art of drag performance. The course will draw from readings on the history of sexuality, feminist critiques of gender identity, transgender affect and embodiment, the history of race and racial identity, and drag and the politics of camp.

What, no term papers eleganza or pop quizzes on tucking?

The purpose of the class, says professor Daniel Williford is “to ‘read’ RPDR as an example of the creative techniques that marginalized people use to grapple with the violence, shame, and social illegitimacy that are the stuff of daily life.”

"Reading Ru" is being offered by the school's Critical Theory & Social Justice department, along with other classes like other classes like "Stupidity," "Whitness," and "Mother Goose to Mash-Ups: Children's Literature and Popular Texts."

h/t: Out.com

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