Rupaul's Drag Race and Philosophy: Sissy That Thought - Paperback

by Hendrik Kempt (Editor), Megan Volpert (Editor), Kate Bornstein (Foreword by)

The first truly philosophical exploration of the drag queen in the context of this ground-breaking reality TV show

Author Biography

Hendrik Kempt is a Research Associate, FoKoS, University Siegen in Germany. He has authored several forthcoming articles on morality and AI. Megan Volpert is the author of many books on communication and popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists. After seven years as a nationally competitive debater, she competed in poetry slams for several more. Her MFA in Creative Writing is from Louisiana State University and she writes regularly for PopMatters. She has been teaching high school English in Atlanta for over a decade and was 2014 Teacher of the Year. She edited the American Library Association-honored anthology This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching. She is co-editor of RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy (2020). Foreword author Kate Bornstein is known as the original Gender Outlaw.