Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Femme Queen Energy : Community as Protest and Embodied Transfeminine Resistance in Vogue Ballroom
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'A week prior to 2021’s Alexander Ball, I attended an open training held by the House of Alexander. The House had held public throwdowns intended to introduce newcomers to Vogue Ballroom culture across that year, all of which I walked in, often in multiple categories. They had not yet, at least since I had joined the scene in January of that year, opened a House training to non-members. As such, I jumped at the opportunity to attend. I washed my hair, applied my eyeliner with a seemingly newfound precision. When I arrived, I changed into a pair of cut-off denim shorts, black thigh-high boots, and a cropped long-sleeved shirt so transformed my entire chest became visible at the mere thought of raising my arms above shoulder height. I was there to serve on every front possible.' 

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    y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies On Resilience no. 83 1 October 2023 27347517 2023 periodical issue 'The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the field of theatre and performance in Australasia have intensified and, in some cases, re-focused the attention of artists and scholars on issues of resilience, well-being and precarity that have been legitimate preoccupations across academic disciplines since the early 2000s. As Margaret Ames and Stephen Greer point out, however, the resilience so frequently attributed to those who work in creative spheres can also serve ‘to rationalise and naturalise the redistribution of responsibility for social and systemic problems from the state to communities and individuals’.1 The role of the artist in society is shifting alongside extreme shifts in forms in theatre and performance, in the way our audiences engage, and in the ways in which we congregate, associate and learn.' (Editorial introduction) 2023 pg. 131-154
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