Unabridged: The Performance of Gender with Aaron Jay Young

Los Angeles photographer Aaron Jay Young visits The Stacks Unabridged to discuss Queen, a portrait book celebrating the art of drag. We learn how his book came to be and what he’s learned about the performance of gender through photographing drag queens. Aaron also reveals how he approaches his subjects to get the right shot.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• Queen by Aaron Jay Young

• Aaron Jay Young photographs The Stacks Book Bash (@thestackspod)

• RuPaul’s DragCon

• RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV)

• RuPaul

• Comic-Con

• Glen Alen

• Palm Springs, CA

• Bianca Del Rio

• RuPaul's Drag Race season 6

• Anti-Recidivism Coalition (Los Angeles, CA)

• Richard Avedon

• Annie Leibovitz

• Mark Seliger

• Ruvén Afanador

• Ryan Pfluger

• Book a Shoot with Aaron

Connect with Aaron: Instagram | Twitter | Website | Queen the Book
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