Bradley, Callum. 2023. Inhuman drag: Getting under the sk(e)ins of the posthuman in conversation with Charity Kase. Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, 8(1), pp. 31-46. ISSN 2055-5695 [Article]

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This article is the culmination of a collaborative process with drag artist Charity Kase. Providing both transcriptions of our conversation and sections of theoretical commentary, I come to test and transform what constitutes the (post)human. Aspects of Charity’s drag – its mediality and virtuality, its hybrid monstrosity and beauty and its anthropomorphic abjections of bodies and environments – embrace the disordered and damaged dimensions of human life on earth. This article introduces an inhuman turn, emphasizing how bodily borders are broken down when the inside is re-turned through staged fantasy and shared imaginaries, as a strategy for challenging phallo- and anthropocentric stereotypes, and the opening of a potential within for becoming without. Tracing some differences in my and Charity’s senses of what drag can do, this article offers up a figure for post/in/ human possibilities.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1386/qsmpc_00086_1
Additional Information:	© [Callum Bradley, 2023]. The definitive, peer reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, Volume 8, Issue Posthuman Drag, Apr 2023, p. 31 - 46 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/qsmpc_00086_1.
Keywords:	difference; fabrication; fabulation; fantasy; mediality; monstrous
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event 12 August 2022 Accepted 6 April 2023 Published
Item ID:	35628
Date Deposited:	16 May 2024 14:14
Last Modified:	16 May 2024 14:14
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35628

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