301: Why Drag Queen Story Reading at Libraries? [Podcast]
Dr Taylor Marshall Podcast
Dr. Taylor Marshall
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🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's the story with all these drag queen story hours? |
| 0:07.0 | Got some guys dressed up like women not like normal women. |
| 0:12.0 | You know it's like chorus girls at an Elton John concert, real strange dressed up and they |
| 0:18.0 | read stories to kids and you're supposed to bring your kid to the library and there's this really unusual person. |
| 0:25.6 | When I was a kid, it was clowns. |
| 0:28.6 | People took their kids around clowns. |
| 0:30.9 | Now it's the... |
| 0:31.9 | But not in drag. But not in drag but not in drag. Yeah now there's adult men in their dress I'm gonna put a picture up here |
| 0:40.9 | I mean this is this is what's going on. Let's see if this will work. Yeah, boom. So it's super glamorized. Like, I don't know any women that walk around dressed like that. |
| 0:54.0 | And both of these dudes got beards and makeup on. |
| 0:59.0 | They like to do that too. |
| 1:00.0 | Like just emphasize the irony I don't know what this is but it's a big deal |
| 1:07.8 | people bring their kids to you know they read these books to them I mean can these parents not read themselves are they are |
| 1:16.9 | they not literate why do they need to take them to the library and have these dudes read the book. I don't want to read. |
| 1:26.8 | No. I don't know. I mean can't they say Alexa read my child a book? |
| 1:32.4 | Read them the anion? No you've got a book. Read them the anianian. No you've got to drive them to the public library |
| 1:37.2 | where there is a drag queen reading hour and then these men. Let's be honest they're not there for the book. They're there to |
| 1:44.7 | look at these these exotic costumes and makeup and poofed up crimped hair. |
| 1:50.6 | And they're not there for the Aeneid. I don't think that's what's being ready. |
| 1:54.8 | They're not reading the Anneid at Drag Queen's hour? |
| 1:58.0 | It would take more than an hour for one thing. And for another thing. |
| 2:01.5 | Maybe they're reading Odyssey. |
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