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Critically acclaimed gender-fluid drag queen, visual artist, speaker, illustrator and author, Sasha Velour has been a force in the international drag scene long before her scene-stealing, rose-petal-filled win on season nine of the Emmy Award-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race. Her first book, The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag has been heralded as “a rousing tribute to a revolutionary art form and its practitioners” (Publisher’s Weekly).
In her Phil Lind Initiative talk titled The Big Reveal: Why Drag Matters, Velour will delve into queer history and the importance of drag as an expression of oneself, as a revolutionary act of visibility for queer culture, and as a rich, multifaceted and politically-charged art form that delights and disrupts. “Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us,” Velour states, “the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived.”
lindinitiative.ubc.ca/series/pop-politics
Critically acclaimed gender-fluid drag queen, visual artist, speaker, illustrator and author, Sasha Velour has been a force in the international drag scene long before her scene-stealing, rose-petal-filled win on season nine of the Emmy Award-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race. Her first book, The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag has been heralded as “a rousing tribute to a revolutionary art form and its practitioners” (Publisher’s Weekly).
In her Phil Lind Initiative talk titled The Big Reveal: Why Drag Matters, Velour will delve into queer history and the importance of drag as an expression of oneself, as a revolutionary act of visibility for queer culture, and as a rich, multifaceted and politically-charged art form that delights and disrupts. “Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us,” Velour states, “the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived.”
lindinitiative.ubc.ca/series/pop-politics
![[Book Launch] Active Non-Alignment: An IR Doctrine for this Century](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S6-89I6ZLu0/mqdefault.jpg "[Book Launch] Active Non-Alignment: An IR Doctrine for this Century
On Monday, February 28, 2022, UBCs School of Public Policy and Global Affairs co-hosted a virtual book launch with the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) to explore a new book by Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, titled El No Alineamiento Activo y América Latina: una doctrina para el nuevo siglo (Active Non-Alignment and Latin America: A Doctrine for the New Century). The discussants addressed the topic from American and Canadian interests and potential reactions.
Welcome Remarks: Clara Renault, Student, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Speaker: Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Discussant: Jeff Reeves, Vice-President, Research & Strategy, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Discussant: Paul Evans, Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Moderator: Grace Jaramillo, Sessional Instructor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
View more SPPGA events: https://sppga.ubc.ca/events")
