Details

ISBN-10: 1612942210
ISBN-13: 9781612942216
Publisher: Bywater Books
Publish Date: 01/25/2022
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 0.90" H

Faux Queen: A Life in Drag

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Price: $18.95

Overview

Faux Queen: A Life in Drag is the memoir of a ballet-obsessed girl who moves to San Francisco from the suburbs and finds her people at the drag club.

It joyously chronicles Monique Jenkinson’s creation of her drag persona Fauxnique, the people and cultural practices that crash her identity into being, her journey through one of the most experimental moments in queer cultural history, and her rise through the nightlife underground to become the first cisgender woman crowned as a major pageant-winning drag queen.

Jenkinson finds authenticity through the glee of drag artifice and articulation through the immediacy of performing bodies. She pens a valentine to gay men and their culture while relaying the making of an open-minded feminist and queer ally. Faux Queen finds deep healing in irreverence and posits that it might be possible for us–queer, straight, and almost everyone on either side and in between–to come together in fabulous difference on the dance floor.

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Reviews

"I've read many books about drag over the years and Monique Jenkinson's Faux Queen is officially my new favorite–and I swear it's not just because I'm in it! Her life story in drag is unique and inspiring. She beautifully and thoughtfully describes an outrageous, provocative, and magical time in San Francisco's drag history that's often misunderstood in hindsight. I'm so grateful to Monique for writing this incredible chronicle of our lives!" –Peaches Christ, filmmaker and cult leader

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Details

ISBN-10: 1612942210
ISBN-13: 9781612942216
Publisher: Bywater Books
Publish Date: 01/25/2022
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 0.90" H
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