Southern Anthropologist
Abstract
Winner: 2015 Graduate Student Paper Competition
Early September 2014, Facebook profiles of popular drag queens on the West Coast were suspended for violating the rule of authenticity. Facebook profiles are designed to represent “real” people, and a battle began between corporate identity politics and the obnoxiously contradicting, subversive identities of drag performance. Drawing upon my own ethnographic work on drag performance and the social media of drag performers, I present this event as an opportunity to explore how drag queens bring their protest into cyberspace. Drag queens are disruptive cyborgs whose queer identity both on a digital and physical stage, questions what is truly authentic.
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Leblanc, Ray
(2017)
"Facebook Realness: Exploring Online Authenticity through Drag Queens and the infamous ‘Real Name Policy’,"
Southern Anthropologist: Vol. 37:
No.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southern_anthropologist/vol37/iss1/3
