Why read The Big Reveal?

Book cover of The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag

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"Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us-the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived."

-Sasha Velour

This book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art. Within these pages, illustrated…

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1 author picked The Big Reveal as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Mark D. Steinberg

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This is a joyous book about living differently in difficult times, a utopian “manifesto” about the power of art.

The book is partly a global history of “drag,” partly a personal memoir about growing up “gender queer” and becoming a drag queen, and partly a book of ideas and stories. The author is the winner of the ninth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, an internationally known performer, and a cartoonist who recently did a New Yorker cover—of herself.

I found lots of bold hope in this book, lots of love and magic. The personal is political, feminists have long argued,…

From Mark's 3 favorite reads in 2023.