drag king

drag king

A woman who wears the clothing and assumes the demeanor of a male, especially as part of an exaggerated performance piece. The mother of two performs with a drag king troupe on the weekends, much to the bemusement of some of her more conservative friends.
See also: drag, king
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • drag queen
  • keep smiling
  • stay smiling
  • bedside manner
  • more to the point
  • eye (someone) up
  • eye up
  • in dispute
  • on the outside
  • look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth
References in periodicals archive
Drag king Alicia Donaldson and her alter ego Manly Mannington
DRAG RACE; PERFORMER 'MANLY MANNINGTON' SAYS BLACK ARTISTS ARE NOT BEING GIVEN THEIR FAIR CHANCE
In the second half of the article, I reflect on my experience performing drag king 'tool' for urban change Toby Sharp in the Dirty Plotz Cabaret as a strategy to critique the race and gender politics of exclusionary arts-led revitalisation (Mclean, 2013).
Hos in the garden: Staging and resisting neoliberal creativity
I started appearing with [performer] Penelope Tuesdae and also I played a fat Elvis at a drag king night called Club Casanova.
Murray Hill: "The hardest working middle-aged man in show business," is a spiffy creation who sings and dances, tells naughty jokes, and works a room like a firecracker
Inn is the co-founder and one of the two MCs of the hip-hop drag king group, Momma's Boyz.
A dance class, a drag king, & the pedagogical possibilities of performative hip-hop: an interview with Carmen Morrison & Alex U. Inn
MPG: Nesse sentido, foi voce quem criou essa articulacao entre masculinidade, feminismo pos-porno, lesbianidade com os ateliers drag king? Sabemos que os ateliers drag kings sao centrais no que voce tem pensado.
Teoria queer, politicas posporno e privativacao da sexualidade: uma conversa com Marie-Helene Bourcier
In creating the character of cross-dressing Moll, female actors in the company worked with a drag king.
Outspoken character is a fresh, vibrant voice after 400 years; THEATRE Director Jo Davies hopes The RSC's Roaring Girls season will encourage more writers to produce stronger roles for women in contemporary theatre, writes Catherine Vonledebur
Female-to-male transgender person Bobby Noble frames detailed accounts of Toronto's three drag king "waves." On stage, the kings use irony and ambivalence to (re)constitute whiteness masculinity, diminishing male virility while magnifying vaginal proclivity.
Ken Moffatt, Troubled Masculinities: Reimagining Urban Men
Braziel deciphers Dred as drag queen and drag king, exploring the stereotypes of black masculinities and how they can be reconfigured as femininity within the diaspora.
Review of Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora
“Come ready to be touched, changed, violated and possibly offended,” drag King Richard Tyler the III begins, “It's going to be our most outrageous show yet.
Where's My Lesbians' Las Vegas International Drag Day Show to Feature Drag King/Queen, Burlesque and Comedy Acts at the LVCS Live Music Venue for Sin Sity Sisters Charity
Surrounded by an eclectic and colourful crowd of cisgendered and transgendered folks, queer parties' attendees will be served--in season--burlesque shows with a feminist take on body representation, trashy drag king and queen performances, humour noir inspired sketch and comedy by notorious local queer performers, live music and overall subversive fun.
Bubble-bath for the queer soul: a materialist perspective on queer parties
In the writing of her piece 'Grease cowboy fever: Or, the making of Johnny T', K Bradford engaged with her work as a Drag King through both her daily persona, with almost schizophrenic interjections from her Drag King persona, Johnny T.
Drag King: camp acts, queer bodies, desiring audiences
Diyaa MilDred Gerestant, a Haitian-American, queer (1) performing artist, made her name as Drag King Dred.
Staging activism: New York City performing artists as cultural workers
I had the pleasure of getting Leslie Feinberg's first novel, Drag King Dreams, in galleys and it wasn't paginated.
Our favorite books of 2005
When I made S/He in 1995 I had all my women dancers go to Diane Torr's drag king workshop.
He said/she said: dancers and choreographers talk about the role of gender in their lives and work
Bert's transformation from drunken, self-loathing sop to genius reborn is hard to swallow and fun though it may be, would the entire camp really don their best drag queen and drag king get-ups to celebrate Michael's birthday?
Camp is pitched for too long