Fanzine Kings

by Joi Pineda
Fanzine Travesti ¿Dónde están los Kings?

Let us begin by taking ownership of our bodies, reclaiming them from the prisons of
social conventions, religious repression and ideological limitations, saving them from the
aesthetic tortures they impose on us and from the languor of the normative.

This is a fanzine that reminds us, challenges us and makes visible a transvestite history
that does nothing but grow and is reborn in multiple forms, focusing its action on what Judith
Butler proposes, making gender a constant performance (Butler, 2001).

The drag king as a tool, method and methodology has a little-told and almost invisible
history. Perhaps because it is scary that a practice is capable of mocking gender binarism
and dismantling cisgender? If this were the case, can you imagine cisgender being a myth
capable of being told by drag?

Kingdom Magazine Vol. 1

by Ken Vegas & Carlos Las Vegas

“Kingdom Magazine” was dedicated to documenting drag king history, drag shows, our arts and photographs, from performers all over the World.

Inspired by the Drag King community at IDKE (The International Drag King Etravaganza), Ken Vegas and Carlos Las Vegas, teamed up with incredibly generous drag king contributors, photographers and artists to document what was happening at the time. There was a lot of activity in the scene of emerging drag artists, troupes and gender politics that Ken and Carlos knew that they had to create a space for these voices and efforts to be documented for future generations of drag kings, genderbenders and historians to reference.

We hope you enjoy taking a peek into the world of drag that was occurring in the early part of the 21st century.

We offer Kingdom Vol. 1 as a free printable download (PDF) with more editions to come as they are made available.