Scholarship

Journalism

Get Bent is taking drag back from white cisgender men (print)
Shameless
Feb. 2021

Drag Heals Is the Queer Representation We Need On TV 
Flare 
Oct. 2020

How Queer Folks Across Canada Are Celebrating Pride from a Distance (ft. Tynomi Banks + Ben Agiter)
Flare
Jun. 2020

Bands + Drag (print)
The West End Phoenix 
Feb. 2020

Meet Yovska, Canada’s drag supermonster
Xtra
Oct. 29, 2019

What's In Your Drag Bag?
With photography by Kate Killet
Flare magazine
June 2019

Priyanka's bag
Archie Maples' bag
Manny Dingo's bag
Tash Riot's bag
Mango Lassi's bag
The Ugly One's bag
ZaKey Lime's bag
Halal Bae's bag
Maris Bobo's bag


ZacKey Lime. Photo: Kate Killet

Monét X Change, Miz Cracker and The Vixen Get Real about Racism and RuPaul's Drag Race
Flare magazine
June 26, 2018

 



Scholarship

Toronto's drag history 
Public presentation, Kitchener Public Library
Forthcoming: June 2021 

Clown + Drag (facilitator)
Presentation, Circus and its Others
Forthcoming: May 8, 2021



Dragula and the expansive queerness of the drag supermonster
In Monsters and the Monstrous (Progressive Connexions)
Forthcoming

Pop the corn and teach the children: Drag lessons beyond RuPaul’s televised curriculum
In RuPedagogies of Realness: Teaching and Learning in RuPaul’s Drag Race and its Paratextual Cultures (McFarland)
Forthcoming

The Library is Open (facilitator)
Book Launch: The Cultural Impact of RuPaul's Drag Race (Intellect)
Mar. 2021

Drag on Pointe: Dancer, Television Sensation, and Drag Superstar Brooke Lynn Hytes Is Queering Ballet
Canadian Theatre Review
Volume 185, Winter 2021, pp. 34-38

Speakeasy graduation stream: Exploring Barbette with Dr. Karen Fricker, drag history with Dr. Joe E. Jeffreys
Public presentation
Ft. Selena Vyle, Allysin Chaynes + Manny Dingo
Oct. 2020

RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Toronto Drag Scene
Thesis, Brock University
Oct. 2020

RuPaul's Drag Race
 and the Toronto Drag Scene
Public presentation 
Zoom
Jun. 2020
Ft. Miss Fiercalicious and Tash Riot. Cameos by Selena Vyle and Manny Dingo.

Crossing Borders 
Presentation: It’s RuPaul’s World, We’re Just Living in it: Cross-cultural aesthetics and cosplay in the era of global drag
Mar. 2020

Brock University, Research Forum in Communication
Presentation: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Toronto Drag Scene
Jan. 2020

Brock University, Social Sciences Research Colloquium
Presentation: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Toronto Drag Scene
Dec. 2019

Brock University, A Reading With Lucy Flawless 
Presentation: Toronto Drag History
Oct. 2019


Russ Martin, Lucy Flawless

Brock University, Canadian Theatre 
Guest Lecture: Sky Gilbert and the Toronto drag scene
Mar. 2019