Students in Dr. Alexia Bloch’s ANTH 312 (Gender Relations) and ANTH 495 (Gender, Migration, and Globalization) classes may be interested in the “9th Annual International Drag King Community Extravaganza” this weekend. Drag Kings from around the world take the stage, teach workshops, put on live performances, and cause a general gender ruckus. For more information, see the website at http://www.idkevancouver.com/.
Want to read more? These books at UBC library will get you started:
The drag king anthology / edited by Donna Jean Troka, Kathleen LeBesco, Jean Bobby Noble In a queer time and place : transgender bodies, subcultural lives / Judith Halberstam Unzipping gender : sex, cross-dressing and culture / Charlotte Suthrell. The transgender studies reader / edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle.
UBC Library also subscribes to a number of ejournals on gender and sexuality, including:
International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies Journal of Gender Studies Gender and Society
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