ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the transformations that the U.S. drag landscape has undergone à propos of the overwhelming success of RuPaul’s Drag Race. I argue that kinging’s insistent surfacing of racial, sexual, and economic inequity and its communitarian approach to drag have excluded it from this mainstreaming. Finally, I reflect on the potential drag holds as an interperformative mechanism for building solidarities under and in spite of neoliberal capitalism.
