RuPedagogies of Realness

Lindsay Bryde is an award-winning English and education studies instructor with research interests in pop culture, film studies, distance learning, pedagogy, and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). She is currently the educational technologist for the Long Island region at SUNY Empire State College. Tommy Mayberry is an academic drag queen who researches and teaches gender, pedagogy, performance, pop culture, language, literature, and reality TV. They are currently the executive director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada).

Table of Contents


Halleloo! Acknowledgments

Hieeeee: An Introduction to the Collection

Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry

Start Your Engines: Critical Context

of the Language and Influence of Drag

RuPaul’s Drag Race as a Heterotopic Learning Experience

Vicky Kampouridou

The Influence of RuPaul’s Drag Race on Pop Culture and the Way We Talk: A ­Pop-Linguistic Analysis

Ricarda Goetz-Preisner

Pedagogy of the Mother: Exploring Freire’s Philosophy of ­Co-Productive Learning

Phillip Joy and Jill Marie McSweeney-Flaherty

“And where is the body?” Naked Drag and the Social Construction of Anatomy as Sexed and Gendered

Tommy Mayberry

She Already Done Had Herses: When Drag Curates Culture

Pop the Corn and Teach the Children: Drag Lessons in Gender, Race, and Class Beyond RuPaul’s Televised Curriculum

Russ Martin

“Cultural appropriation! That’s what we never heard”: Performing Indigeneity on Reality Television and Beyond

Maggie Ward

RuPaulogetics: Assimilation, Backwash, and the Charisma of Queer Pedagogy

David J. Fine

May the Best Drag Queen Win: The Competitive Nature of Drag

Gay Super Bowl: Homonormative Authorization, Instruction, and Discipline Through Sports Media Borrowings

Nathan Workman

Where Are the Jokes? Comedy as Pedagogy

Peter Piatkowski

Digital Drag and YouTube as Queer Space: Queens as Influencers from Performance to Pedagogy

Florian Zitzelsberger

Pedagogies, Praxis, and Privilege: RuPaulean Communities of Care

Mandy Penney

Sashay Away: Resources to Support Learners

Spilling the Tea: Glossary

Let’s Have a KiKi: Discussion Questions for the Class

Very Special Guest Judge: Select Bibliography

Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent: About the Contributors

The Library Is Open: The Index