It started with Victoria Scone on Ru Paul's Drag Race UK. At least that is what we were led to believe. In truth, cisgender female drag queens is not a new concept. Movies like Victor Victoria (1982) and Connie and Carla (2004) challenged the idea of real women pretending to be men pretending to be drag queens — well before Victoria Scone.
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We all have the unconscious idea that metropolitan areas are too sophisticated for bigots. I mean, as Bernadette Bassenger said in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, “I don’t know if that ugly wall of suburbia has been put there up to stop them getting in or us getting out.”
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With Australia’s first Drag Expo making its way to Melbourne this winter, we figured it’s high time to talk drag!
What does it take to become a fabulous drag queen? What must new queens know before taking on the industry? And what can the audience learn?
We sat down with Hannah Conda, a fabulous staple in Sydney’s vibrant LGBTQI community, to find out what it takes to be a drag queen.
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For far too long Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture has sat in the background covered up by colonisation. Only now, thanks to the recent publication of Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe and other research projects, do we know about their history pre-colonisation. Whether that be their solid and thriving communities, their sewed fields and fished waterways, their politics and customs. A deeper narrative compared to the “hunter-gatherer” label we’ve put onto Indigenous Australians for far too long.
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