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Social Imaginaries extends the experience of a small world by investigating how Sydney’s social networks connected participants in an everyday way that simultaneously registered the drag king scene as a cultural phenomenon. This chapter puts forth the concept of Intimate Attunement to account for the charged singularities of desire that animated the affective physicality of drag king events, giving unity and meaning to the elementary condition of “being together”. By bringing together Scene Thinking with an exploration of the productive and embodied conditions of lesbian sociality, the perception of affective relationality is found to be entangled with impressions of precarious ephemerality. The result is a social imaginary that connected embodied intimacy to strongly held investments in diverse cultural, sexual and political configurations.

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Drysdale, K. (2019). Social Imaginaries. In: Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15777-7_4

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