Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction; 1. Post-RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer Visibility, Online Discourse and Political Change in a Global Digital Sphere; Part II: Drag Visibility and Politics in Global Online Space; 2. Post-Drag Race, Post-Trans, Post-Pandemic Contestants: Affecting Political Realness in Social Media and (in Return to) Reality Television Space; 3. “Boys Wear Blue, Girls Wear Pink”: Drag Queens, Fake News and Gender Controversies in a Conservative Brazil; 4. Pabllo Vittar, the New Drag Sensation and Embodiment of Resistance in Digital Media Space; Part III: Drag Influencers, Advertising and Labor; 5. All those Glamazons We Subscribe To: Mapping a Network of Key Influencers Spreading the Art of Drag on YouTube; 6. Drag Dollars: Making Room for Queens in Advertising; 7. It’s a Drag: The Televisual Exploitation of Labor in RuPaul’s Drag Race; 8. Werq the YouTube: Changing Collective Practices in the Brazilian Drag Scene; Part IV: Drag Remix, Translation and Online Fandom; 9. Giving Face (Shields): The Recirculation and Rearticulation of Drag Race in a Global Pandemic; 10. Reading is Fundamental: Ru-Capturing Narrative and Drag Race Herstory Through Remixed Episodes, Fan Dialogue and Hypercamp Culture; 11. Do You Speak Drag? An Analysis of RuPaul’s Drag Race Jargon Translated and Subtitled by Brazilian Fans; Part V: Drag by Global Extension(s); 12. The Exploration of Liminal Identities through Drag in Online Space; 13. Mr Gay Namibia: Publicity Maven, Social-Justice Defender and Former Altar Boy; 14. The Shumang Lila Performers of Manipur and the Pursuit of the Perfect

About the Author

Niall Brennan is Associate Professor of Communication at Fairfield University, USA, where he teaches and researches on gender and sexuality, popular culture, visual culture and consumer culture in the media.

David Gudelunas is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at The University of Tampa, USA, where he also serves as a professor of communication.