Abstract

What is drag? How is drag perceived today? What is the relation of music to drag? How can we analyse concepts of gender over time? Can we discuss our concepts of gender within the context of other cultures?

Philiminality Cambridge is honoured to have Jacob Mallinson Bird (Dinah Lux) and Alistair Hyde to speak on different aspects of drag today. Both speakers will present, followed by a Q&A.

Jacob Mallinson Bird (Dinah Lux) is an academic, drag queen, and model. He is currently a DPhil candidate in Music at the University of Oxford, researching drag lip-sync performance, having completed his undergraduate in Cambridge. When not in the world of high-academia, he has a successful modelling career in and out of drag, having worked in Tokyo, London, and New York.

Alistair Hyde is a final year sociology student at the University of Cambridge. He is the president of CUSU LGBT and currently completing his dissertation on contemporary LGBT reactions to drag. When he’s not immersing himself in social theory, you can find him singing in the Downing choir, or Co-Chairing of the Cambridge Universities Labour Club.