Abstract
In emphasising affects, interactions and intimacies throughout, Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures offers insight into the processes by which scenes are made to matter. The conclusion brings together those speculative moments that comprised the end of an era for Sydney’s local drag king culture, recognising that social worlds for lesbian and queer women are very small indeed. This final chapter ends by presenting the conceptual work of Scene Thinking as capable of accommodating the ordinary affects of participation and the structures of feeling it provokes. By looking back to Sydney’s drag king scene as a distinct historico-spatial configuration, future potential for other cultural phenomenon and the social worlds they sustain is revealed.
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Drysdale, K. (2019). Conclusion. In: Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15777-7_7
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