Gender, Drag and Beauty Pageants with Laurie Greene

High Low with EmRata

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

3.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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I delve into the world of gender and drag performance and beauty pageants with Professor Laurie Greene, author of Drag and Beauty Pageants: Performing Femininity in the World’s Playground. We chat about playing into as well as subverting gender norms, camp sensibilities, and the politics of the Miss America pageant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Hi-Lo with Amrata.
0:07.9	And today I wanted to talk about beauty pageants, drag queens, and everything in between.
0:15.7	Both are pretty fascinating subjects on their own and I think the idea of comparing and
0:19.4	contrasting drag culture and beauty pageant culture is just interesting where do they
0:25.0	cross over?
0:26.0	Where are they different?
0:27.8	Drag has come up a couple times on the show.
0:31.0	People have talked about RuPaul's Drag Race and how much they love it.
0:34.2	I actually met at the Jacques Mieu show last week, Simone, who won season 13 RuPaul's
0:43.3	Drag Race.
0:44.3	If you haven't seen, I really recommend seeing the look for the hair.
0:48.3	It was incredible.
0:49.8	Simone just looked absolutely amazing at Jacques Mieu and was lovely to talk to you.
0:54.9	I was like, I want to be your friend.
0:57.3	I obviously am very interested in the idea of performance as it pertains to gender and
1:02.9	beauty standards and how we perform masculinity and femininity and the way that we do these
1:08.2	with these literal pageants right now.
1:11.2	There's so much conversation.
1:12.7	We've talked about it with LA Page on the podcast around trans rights and just how many
1:18.9	politicians and protesters are rallying against drag story hours and just this type of performance
1:26.0	that challenges and subverts gender norms.
1:29.7	I just felt like it was topical.
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