MALED IT! – Body Rebellion and Flowing Knowledge: Drag Kinging as a Collective Utopia & Un/learning

  • Europe

Berlin

Bulgaria

How can Drag Kinging become a shared method for collective learning, unlearning, and knowledge production?

What knowledge is accessed when we step into alternative masculinities* and gender roles – and how can this be documented, shared, and opened up to others?

What can the body know that language cannot articulate?

What role does cultural memory play in embodied gender performance?

What does an archive of gestures look like?

How can utopia be made visible without fixing it?

This project explores Drag Kinging as a method of embodied, collective knowledge production. It is rooted in queer-feminist, anti-normative practices and unfolds through MALED IT! – a long-term workshop series I have been developing since 2018. MALED IT! empowers queer, trans*, non-binary and FLINTA* persons through drag as a form of joyful resistance and transformation.

My interest within the School of Commons lies in further developing Drag Kinging as a commons-based methodology for peer learning, critical play, and transdisciplinary research. The focus is not on performance as outcome, but on what becomes possible through the act of becoming someone else together – shifting norms, reclaiming agency, and imagining other futures through the body.

Marilyn Nova White

Marilyn Nova White (they/them) is a Berlin-based Performer, Actor and Drag King working at the intersection of performance, intimacy and artistic research. Their practice moves between stage, workshop, and embodied experimentation, exploring how identity is constructed, performed, and transformed.

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Have you heard about Drag Kings before?

What means utopia to you?

What do you want to un/learn?

What do you need to be present?