Deafies in Drag are youtubers who post weekly comedy drag sketches each week. They have reached a wide audience, sharing their experiences as deaf, gay and Latinx drag queens, and so their videos have been described as a form of intersectional activism (Feenstra and Kessel, 2020).
This sketch depicts the struggles of lip reading
This sketch challenges the perceptions hearing people may have of the film CODA
This sketch depicts the struggles of coming out to a family who doesn’t sign
References:
Window image: Deafies in Drag (2016) Deafies’ Problems!. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEaTrWrthaQ [Accessed 12 May 2022].
Figures 1a and 2a: Deafies in Drag (2019) Deaf 101: Reading Lips. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M571tgTICw [Accessed 12 May 2022].
Figure 3a: Deafies in Drag (2022) COHA: Child of Hearing Adults. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql18c3v9418 [Accessed 12 May 2022].
Figures 4a,5a,6a,7a: Deafies in Drag (2019) Deaf Coming Out. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_KnDCbpESo [Accessed 12 May 2022].
Feenstra, N. and Kessel, L.V. (2020) Deafies in drag: Role models at the intersection of queer and deaf representation. Arts in Society Academic Rhapsodies, Leiden University. pp.107-123. Available at: https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2727491/view [Accessed 19 May 2022].
