ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how transgender contestants of RuPaul’s Drag Race have rearticulated themselves in social media space since their competition on the television series and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Transgender contestants of Drag Race have reconfigured their identities in social media space as a result of their identity constrictions in Drag Race, and by virtue of the pandemic. The confines of the Covid-19 pandemic have also facilitated rearticulating post-Drag Race, transgender identity in social media space by virtue of intersectional political mobility, in ways that range from Black transgender visibility to commodification of brands and the body. With marginalized, transfeminine contestant Kylie Sonique Love returning to and winning All Stars season six, this chapter argues that a post-Drag Race, post-trans, post-pandemic media space is one in which the troublesomeness of transgender political agency is rendered into resolute, neoliberal narratives of assimilated drag queens, free of internal and external anxieties, in a return to reality television space.
