Unabridged: The Performance of Gender with Aaron Jay Young
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
*Patreon- and Substack-only bonus episode teaser*
Los Angeles photographer Aaron Jay Young visits The Stacks Unabridged to discuss Queen, a portrait book celebrating the art of drag. We learn how his book came to be and what he’s learned about the performance of gender through photographing drag queens. Aaron also reveals how he approaches his subjects to get the right shot.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody it's Tracy Thomas host of the Stacks and I'm here with another bonus episode the Stacks Unabridged. |
| 0:06.8 | I am joined today by Erin J Young who is a photographer and made this beautiful book called Queen and it's |
| 0:15.4 | photos of drag queens and he and I talked today about the book, why he made it, what |
| 0:21.1 | drag has to tell us or teach us about gender and expression and |
| 0:26.5 | performance. If you saw the pictures I posted on my Instagram from the Stacks anniversary party at Reparations Club, those sort of |
| 0:35.3 | glam shots, then you've seen Aaron's work. He was the photographer. So we get to |
| 0:40.3 | talk about all of that good stuff. |
| 0:43.0 | If you're listening to today's episode |
| 0:44.6 | and it cuts out at about 10 to 15 minutes through, |
| 0:47.6 | that means you're not a member of the Stacks Pack |
| 0:49.6 | on Patreon or a subscriber to Unstacked over Unsub on substack and these bonus episodes are |
| 0:54.8 | exclusive for those paid subscribers. So head to Patreon.com and join the |
| 1:00.0 | Stacks pack to get access to the bonus episodes plus access to our discord channel, |
| 1:05.2 | our monthly virtual book clubs, discounts on merch and more. Or you could also |
| 1:10.0 | check out unstacked at tracie Thomas. substack.com and get access to all of my |
| 1:15.0 | hot takes about books and pop culture and of course access to these bonus |
| 1:19.2 | episodes. The choice is yours you can also do both. |
| 1:22.6 | Substack, Patreon, access to the bonus episodes. |
| 1:26.1 | That's all you need to know. |
| 1:27.4 | Okay, enough from me. |
| 1:28.8 | Now it's time to dive into my conversation |
| 1:31.1 | with Aaron J. Young, the author and photographer behind Queen. All right, everybody, welcome to the Stacks Unabridged. |
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