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Faux queen : a life in drag
- Title
- Faux queen : a life in drag / Monique Jenkinson.
- Author
- Jenkinson, Monique
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : Amble Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 291 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm
- Summary
- This 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 pageant-winning drag queen. --
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- LGBTQ+ biographies.
- Contents
- (mostly from table of contents) Foreword / by Evan James -- What's in My Purse -- It's Like a Kind of Torture to Have to Watch the Show -- Let's Pretend -- English Boys in Eyeliner -- Art Damaged -- Pageant I: Pageant Queens -- At the Ballet -- St. Vitus Dance -- She's a Maniac -- The House of More! -- Wilde Is On Mine -- Photo Album -- Our Little Libber -- The Fiercingtons -- All the Sequins -- Pageant II: The Reading -- Party's Over -- Don't Get Too Comfortable -- Hagen & Simone -- Pageant III: You're a Butterfly -- That's Problematic -- Real Ladies -- Genderful -- Edie, The Steve Lady & Me -- Not Now, Voyager -- Pageant IV: Butterflies Are Free
- Call Number
- *MGYB (Jenkinson) 23-3354
- ISBN
- 9781612942216
- 1612942210
- OCLC
- 1252414251
- Author
- Jenkinson, Monique, author.
- Title
- Faux queen : a life in drag / Monique Jenkinson.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : Amble Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- Amble Press first edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- *MGYB (Jenkinson) 23-3354