Drag Queen Story Hours

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Anonymous wrote:It’s someone well trained in stage performance reading stories to kids in a way that is very engaging. They also wear costumes that are whimsical and ostentatious which kids also find fun and silly. No different than a magician or clown show or a Disney parade—it’s a kid-friendly performance in costume.

Well trained? Where exactly is that happening?

During their tenures as drag performers, dumb dumb.

Or on shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race. A very entertaining show

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for starting the discussion OP. I’ve looked into it more reading this discussion and we’re definitely going to check it out at our local library.

Enjoy! For a sexier version, I'd also suggest seeing one at a bar.

What do you mean? I’ve been to a lot of drag shows at bars. They’re not usually particularly sexy, just raunchy like any other adult show.

Burlesque is much more scandalous than drag.

Yeah, I think people who have never been to drag think that drag is like burlesque—sexy, skimpy outfits and suggestive erotic dancing. They don’t get that drag is mostly campy, silly lip synching with adult humor mixed in.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a performance, like any other performance. The person dresses up and reads a story, which is different from just a regular person in regular clothes reading a story.

It is not like any other performance but whatever you need to say to make yourself comfortable with it.

I am comfortable with it. You’re not, and that’s okay! No one is forcing you to go to any drag performance with your kid or not. Why does it bother you so much that we do though?

Again. Never said you shouldn’t go. You do you. Question was when did it become socially acceptable. Maybe I should have the question asked by a drag queen so you can understand it.

The real question is when did being a sanctimonious twat become socially acceptable.

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Reading aloud to children has a number of benefits supported by educational research.

It instills a love of stories. It gives children who can't read yet an opportunity to hear complex stories, and for beginning readers, they can hear stories that are more advanced than their own reading level. Building comprehension skills and background knowledge is a stepping stone to more advanced reading.

Reading in community also lets children understand that their community values literacy and storytelling. It can connect children to their own culture, and it can connect children to other cultures. For kids who are from minoritized cultures, it's important for them to see representation of people who look like them as the protagonist of stories. For kids from dominant cultures, it's important that they see that not everyone looks like them, and that they gain the skills to imagine themselves in the shoes of others.

I like to think of it as "nutrition for your imagination."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a performance, like any other performance. The person dresses up and reads a story, which is different from just a regular person in regular clothes reading a story.

It is not like any other performance but whatever you need to say to make yourself comfortable with it.

I am comfortable with it. You’re not, and that’s okay! No one is forcing you to go to any drag performance with your kid or not. Why does it bother you so much that we do though?

Again. Never said you shouldn’t go. You do you. Question was when did it become socially acceptable. Maybe I should have the question asked by a drag queen so you can understand it.

The real question is when did being a sanctimonious twat become socially acceptable.

Not sure. You seem to have thought about it so you should know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading aloud to children has a number of benefits supported by educational research.

It instills a love of stories. It gives children who can't read yet an opportunity to hear complex stories, and for beginning readers, they can hear stories that are more advanced than their own reading level. Building comprehension skills and background knowledge is a stepping stone to more advanced reading.

Reading in community also lets children understand that their community values literacy and storytelling. It can connect children to their own culture, and it can connect children to other cultures. For kids who are from minoritized cultures, it's important for them to see representation of people who look like them as the protagonist of stories. For kids from dominant cultures, it's important that they see that not everyone looks like them, and that they gain the skills to imagine themselves in the shoes of others.

I like to think of it as "nutrition for your imagination."

That is one view I guess. I disagree.

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NP. I don’t really get it either. However, I’ve been uncomfortable with the overt sexism/misogyny at adult drag shows I’ve attended, so wouldn’t be comfortable letting a child attend.

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Do you ask for explanation from everyone whose entertainment choices differ from yours? It’s completely fine it doesn’t appeal but sus that you are so perplexed other people enjoy things you don’t. Surely this phenomenon must be familiar to you.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s someone well trained in stage performance reading stories to kids in a way that is very engaging. They also wear costumes that are whimsical and ostentatious which kids also find fun and silly. No different than a magician or clown show or a Disney parade—it’s a kid-friendly performance in costume.

Well trained? Where exactly is that happening?

This. A drag performer isn't a great story teller simply by virtue of over-the-top costumes and makeup - which all detract from the story to begin with.

Have you ever been to a drag show? It’s much more than makeup and costumes. They’re performers.

Nope and never will. Not my thing. When exactly did they become performers?

Oh boy. I truly can’t with the stupidity.

I’m stupid. Where is the drag queen training program. Anybody can put on makeup and go read to kids but yeah I’m the stupid one. Are you doing background checks on these complete strangers that you are entrusting your kids with. Would you allow a random homeless guy come read to your kid?

What are the drag queens being entrusted with? Standing X feet away from the kids who are sitting with their parents involves what threat exactly in terms of stranger danger? Are you insinuating that a reader runs off and snatches a kid or something?

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The drag Queens are better dressed than what I see a lot of HS girls wearing when they walk out of school on their lunch break.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a performance, like any other performance. The person dresses up and reads a story, which is different from just a regular person in regular clothes reading a story.

It is not like any other performance but whatever you need to say to make yourself comfortable with it.

I am comfortable with it. You’re not, and that’s okay! No one is forcing you to go to any drag performance with your kid or not. Why does it bother you so much that we do though?

Again. Never said you shouldn’t go. You do you. Question was when did it become socially acceptable. Maybe I should have the question asked by a drag queen so you can understand it.

mm I think it became socially acceptable around a decade or two ago. I am of south asians heritage and we have a third gender, they are very persecuted and mostly considered lower-class performers and people are afraid that they will give them the evil eye and so give them money, give them a lot of respect to their face. I think that they were given a separate area to check their gender on passports and ID cards plus the third gender rights movement really picked up steam in the early decade of this century. I know that drag in American started becoming more accepted and appreciated as a cultural thing broadly speaking when Drag Race started on Tv and also b/c of awareness of the third gendered people in other countries. My first exposure to drag as a performance was the movie "with love Julie.." something and I remember loving it and watching it with my friends in high school in the '90s. Drag as a performance started being really appreciated and mainstreamed about a decade ago from what I can tell. I personally would never take my kids but I am hijab wearing Muslim woman and I have no problem with these other people who have very different parameters for their lives taking their kids. Of all the moral dangers out there, this is minor. Noone is forcing you, why do you care what others enjoy? Would you have not taken your children to see plays in elizabethan England? Dra has always been a part of performance.

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Drag shows are nothing more than womanface minstrelsy.

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Anonymous wrote:When I see them we don't go to the library that day. Drag belongs in bars.

Why?

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Oh for cute! The Proud Bois were too cowed by the counter protesters so moved their ire to a parents forum. Oooooo so tuff!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s someone well trained in stage performance reading stories to kids in a way that is very engaging. They also wear costumes that are whimsical and ostentatious which kids also find fun and silly. No different than a magician or clown show or a Disney parade—it’s a kid-friendly performance in costume.

Well trained? Where exactly is that happening?

This. A drag performer isn't a great story teller simply by virtue of over-the-top costumes and makeup - which all detract from the story to begin with.

Have you ever been to a drag show? It’s much more than makeup and costumes. They’re performers.

Nope and never will. Not my thing. When exactly did they become performers?

From the womb, darling. They’re artists.