Drag Queens, montagens e reinvenções: tecendo outras existências

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the impersonation of drag queens as a way to think both conceptually and to reflect on the existence. In their impersonation process, drags challenge stratified compositions of concepts as gender, body, appearance, subjectivity in pointing to intersections between modes of dress, ways of living and ways of thinking. The research seeks to escape from molars, dominant discourses, and uses, to its aid, the concepts proposed by authors such as Deleuze, Guattari, Rolnik, Butler, Preciado, Benedict, Precious, Miller and Bollon, among others, statements of drag queens Kinaidos, La Beauty, Amanda Fierce, Duda Flux, of autobiographical accounts, photographs of Nikki S Lee, films Paris is Burning and To die like a man. We sew, thus, a fragmented text-blank, in which subject and object are confused, intertwine. The research concludes aware that this is an unfinished and constantly changing path.