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Title: GiGi Holliday Interview, October 17, 2019
Date: October 17, 2019
Creator: GiGi Holliday; Kai Walther
Description: GiGi Holliday in this interview discusses her introduction to and involvement in the field of burlesque, primarily in DC. She explains different kinds of burlesque, especially the contrast between Black and white performers and shows. While acknowledging racism she’s faced as a performer, Holliday focuses more on the community she’s found among other performers of color and how burlesque serves as an avenue of activism for her.
Subject: Chocolate City Burlesque and Cabaret; Chocolate City Lounge; Washington, DC; Burlesque; Activism; Nerdlesque; La Boum Boum Brunch; Blackness; Racism; Identity; Brown Girls Burlesque; Burlycon; Neo-burlesque; Drag queens
Country: United States
Collection: DC Burlesque Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2216
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Title: Lexie Starre Interview, November 12, 2019
Date: November 12, 2019
Creator: Lexie Starre; Kai Walther
Description: In this interview Lexie Starre discusses how she started performing burlesque and became a member and then producer of the DC Gurly Show, a DC burlesque troupe. She talks about the troupe’s focus on queer performers and community building, as well as providing instruction for new performers.
Subject: DC Gurly Show; Washington, DC; Burlesque; Queer Burlesque; Phase 1; The Pinch; Neo-burlesque; Pretty Boi Drag; Smut Slam; Chocolate City Burlesque and Cabaret; Howard University
Country: United States
Collection: DC Burlesque Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2222
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Title: Ly Meloccaro Interview, October 6, 2020
Date: October 6, 2020
Creator: Ly Meloccaro; Rosie Cain
Description: In this interview Rosie Cain interviews Ly Meloccaro about both their identity as non-binary and trans as well as their identity as fat. Ly discusses how they previously identified as trans-masc, a trans man and then non-binary, now agender. Ly discusses their experiences performing drag, as well as what their gender identity and body identity has meant in relation to their career as a musician and performer. Ly discusses their body identity as fat, fatphobia in the queer community and society as a whole, and the work of the Fat Liberation movement. Ly discusses their history with disordered eating and their struggle to receive gender affirming care because of their body size. They also discuss their use of social media.
Subject: gender; transgender; queer; non-binary; agender; body; fat; plus size; drag; musical theater; dysphoria; Health at Every Size; body positivity; cisgender; lesbian; gay; fat liberation; top surgery; disordered eating; fatphobia; social media; twitter; instagram; tumblr
Country: United States
Collection: Non-Binary and Fat: The Intersections of Identity
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2476
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Title: Spencer Lawson Interview, December 1, 2021
Date: December 1, 2021
Creator: Spencer Lawson; Colette Combs
Description: In this interview, Spencer Lawson, a full-time student at the University of Delaware, reflects upon his experience through a gendered lens. He discusses growing up openly expressing femininity, living in Haverhill Massachusetts, attending an all-boys middle and high school, coming out ,and life during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also describes finding make-up artistry and drag during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, using art as expression throughout his life, and his understanding of the performative aspects of gender.
Subject: drag; gender; youth and gender; gende roles; COVID-19; quarantine; isolation; theater; school; all-boys school; fashion; design; painting; art; make-up; RuPaul's Drag Race; Aquaria; University of Delaware; UDress; Coronavirus; gender performativity; Haverhill, MA
Country: United States
Collection: Spencer Lawson Interview, December 1, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3491
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Title: Tanner Fraser Interview, October 27, 2021
Date: October 27, 2021
Creator: Tanner Fraser; Colette Combs
Description: In this interview, Fraser, a non-binary drag artist living in Maryland, reflects upon their life through a gendered lens. They discuss growing up as a tomboy, living in Arizona, their relationship to their parents, youth sports, family dynamics, coming out, grappling with trans identity, discovering drag, and life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fraser describes how serving in the U.S Navy, finding drag as a performance art form, and experiencing the pandemic changed their relationship to and Understanding of their own gender.
Subject: drag; Pretty Boi Drag; Gage Razor; non-binary; Washington, DC; Arizona; Scotland; tomboy; The L Word; One Direction; familial relationships; gender; youth and gender; US Navy; military and gender; gender roles; Catholicism; trans identity; COVID-19; quarantine; youth sports; ADHD
Country: United States
Collection: Tanner Fraser Interview, October 27, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3501
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