Week 3: Your final choice of a topic, why you selected that one, and a description of how you plan to explore it.
Topic: Asian American drag queen
Kim Chi is a Korean American drag queen. She is wearing Korean traditional cloth. This song title is “Fat, Fem and Asian”. I felt that she expressed to be proud of being fat, feminine and Asian on this song.
Drag queen basically represents men, sometime women too, who dress in women for performing. When I watched “RuPaul’s drag race” for the first time, I got into it. It was just fun to watch. At the same time, I thought that drag queen and drag show are one of the symbol of diversity in term of Gender. And these days, the TV-show “RuPaul’s drag race”, which was Queer culture, is becoming a part of POP culture. Also, there were few famous Asian American drag queens in that show who express their Asian culture by performance.
In my final project, I’d like to discuss Asian American drag queens, especially those who performed in RuPaul’s drag race, their performance and their struggles as being Asian and being gay. Also, I’d like to research some situations of drag queen and drag show in some asian countries, probably Thailand where drag show is accepted as pop culture, and Japan where Queer culture is not popular as same as here.
Awesome topic! Would definitely like to learn more about the origins of drag and it is viewed differently in different societies.
What a very unique and educating choice for a topic! I am looking forward to reading this and learning more about this culture that many are still struggling with understanding. I’m curious to see how those Asian countries that you have mentioned will feel about this concept given the cultural history of how we have viewed those in the LGBTQ community.