Evelyn Annuß

In Dirty Dragging, Evelyn Annuß reformulates queer theorisations of drag, exploring the ambivalence of transgressive performances under apartheid, Nazism, and Jim Crow through a transoceanic lens. Taking up the ambivalence of "dirty" performance modes spanning drag and carnival to propaganda, she extends readings of gender bending by incorporating perspectives on blackface and "racialised drag." She thereby explores violent, locally specific...