Performance Drag em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

This study focuses on understanding who Drag Queens are in times of pandemic. By comprehending who they are and what it means to be Drag for them, we investigate how they construct their Drag production and publish it on Instagram. Additionally, this study adopts the postulates of Victor Turner (1974) on structure and anti-structure in contemporary society. Anti-structure is an absence of social norms, where communitas emerge as spaces of creative freedom. Drag Queens are considered outsiders, navigating between the realms of structure and antistructure. This study aims to understand why and how Drags migrate to Instagram, and what liminoid behaviors exist on this social network. The methodology adopted is hybrid, using approaches such as digital ethnography, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, oral history, imagetic analysis, and content analysis. This study seeks new empirical foundations to understand how new behaviors emerge from the use of Instagram.