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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Apologies for cross posting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Announcing a new publication from Palgrave Macmillan, which I hope will be of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Investments in Drag King Cultures:<br>
</span><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"DaytonaW01-Thin",sans-serif;color:#55707F">The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"DaytonaW01-Thin",sans-serif;color:#55707F">By Kerryn Drysdale</span></b><b><span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"DaytonaW01-Thin",sans-serif;color:#55707F"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">This book takes the globally recognised phenomenon of drag king performances as an opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">for critical inquiry into the rise and fall of an urban scene for lesbian and queer women in Sydney,</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">Australia (circa 1999-2012). Exploring how a series of weekly events provided the site for intimate</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">encounters, Drysdale reveals the investments made by participants that worked to sustain the</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">sense of a small world and anchor the expansive imaginary of lesbian cultural life. But what</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">happens when scenes fade, as they invariably do? Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures is</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">unique in capturing the perspective of a scene at the moment of its decline, revealing the process</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">by which a contemporary movement becomes layered with historical significance. Bringing together</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">the theoretical tradition of scene studies with recent work on the affective potentialities of the</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">everyday and the mobile urban spaces they inhabit, this book has appeal to scholars working</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555">across gender, sexuality and culture.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959"><a href="https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/kerryn-drysdale/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#595959">Kerryn Drysdale</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959"> is <span style="background:white">a
Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, located within <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;background:white">UNSW Arts and Social Sciences. Her disciplinary background is in cultural studies, with a particular focus on
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;background:white">LGBTIQ social scenes, identities and practices. Kerryn is also interested in community-led approaches to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;background:white">harm reduction and urban LGBTIQ night-time economic reform</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5A5B56;background:white">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please see the attached flyer for a discount. Similarly, if you would like to review the book, the publisher has an <a href="https://www.palgrave.com/us/media-centre/book-review-process/online-review-copies" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Online
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Many thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kerryn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="letter-spacing:.25pt"><a href="https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030157760"><span style="color:blue">Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures:
</span><span style="color:blue;letter-spacing:0pt">The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene</span></a></span></i>. Palgrave Macmillan</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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