{"product_id":"faux-queen-a-life-in-drag-9781612942216","title":"Faux Queen: A Life in Drag","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFaux Queen: A Life in Drag\u003c\/em\u003e is the memoir of a ballet-obsessed girl who moves to San Francisco from the suburbs and finds her people at the drag club.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt joyously chronicles Monique Jenkinson's creation of her drag persona Fauxnique, the people and cultural practices that crash her identity into being, her journey through one of the most experimental moments in queer cultural history, and her rise through the nightlife underground to become the first cisgender woman crowned as a major pageant-winning drag queen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJenkinson finds authenticity through the glee of drag artifice and articulation through the immediacy of performing bodies. She pens a valentine to gay men and their culture while relaying the making of an open-minded feminist and queer ally. \u003cem\u003eFaux Queen\u003c\/em\u003e finds deep healing in irreverence and posits that it might be possible for us--queer, straight, and almost everyone on either side and in between--to come together in fabulous difference on the dance floor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jenkinson, Monique\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bywater Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612942216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Monique Jenkinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39719041630283,"sku":"9781612942216","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_c869f679-4a79-4d78-b9c9-ce2d1e5119bb.jpg?v=1648655200","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/faux-queen-a-life-in-drag-9781612942216","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}