Selby Wynn Schwartz Books in Order

Selby Wynn Schwartz examines four decades of American drag dance, connecting performance with queer and trans politics. Through dancers' histories and practices, she explores embodiment, memory, mourning, and the ways movement challenges familiar ideas about gender and cultural belonging.

Interwoven vignettes reimagine the lives of feminist writers, artists, and sapphic women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their intersecting struggles for creative freedom, justice, and control over their own lives form a collective portrait of resistance.

Italian quick change performer Leopoldo Fregoli moves through the worlds of early cinema, drag, and theatrical celebrity. Told in fragments resembling film frames, his life exposes the possibilities of transformation and the limits of the freedom he offers the women around him.