Introduction

Meet the team

Michele

From: Springfield, MA

Drag Name: Misha Snegurochka

Skill: the grrl can sew

LSFYL Song: “R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” by Aretha

Favorite Queen: Sasha Velour

Emily

From: Evanston, IL

Drag Name: Madame M. Phyzema

Skill: Unicycling while reciting Shakespeare monologues.

LSFYL Song: “Call Your Girlfriend” by Robyn.

Favorite Queen: Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova (but your dad just calls her Katya).

Holly

From: Lynchburg, VA

Drag Name: Miss Swamp Thing

Skill: The splits!

LSFYL Song: “Crash into Me” by Dave Matthews Band.

Favorite Queen: Gottmik

Lindsay

From: Denton, TX

Drag Name: Lana Del Lin

Skill: Can rap the entirety of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby”.

LSFYL Song: “Green Light” by Lorde.

Favorite Queen: Bianca Del Rio (pictured above!)

Join us!

Call for participation: Open as of December 2022

Do you have experience or interest in text mining, modeling, or creating interactive games?

Do you know how to sissy that walk, or would you like to learn?

Please reach out to us to discuss how you can get involved. We’re also looking into thematic analysis through qualitative coding methods, visual analysis about body image and gender expression, and comparative language analysis against source texts like Paris Is Burning (1990).

BUT! We’re excited to speak with you about your ideas, the tools you use, and the questions you have that this dataset might help answer.

Or, just use the data set! We don’t have a suggested citation for this page, but we recommend you cite the datasets collected here directly. If you have data to add, please reach out to us!

Process Updates

Next Steps: Our plan

Now that we’ve built out a prototype, we hope to increase our analytic power by bringing other interested parties with digital skills into the project to play with the data we’ve collected, use the process we’ve created on other seasons, and generate novel datasets about future seasons.

Project Update Presentation

Group 5 - Project Update Presentation

Here’s an update on we were as of Nov. 10:

• We had the start of our cleaned files.
• Our first plan for qualitative coding didn’t work!
• We readjusted to making a participatory game in Twine for the purposes of calling additional collaborators to action.
• We settled on building out a more robust repository for data related to RuPaul’s Drag Race that combined sources from multiple perspectives.

After that, we started to comb for additional data sources, cleaned the remaining files, started to architect a Twine game, and began prototyping the game itself including gathering media and quotes to use within the content.