Halfway between a transformation that performatizes the most stereotyped becoming of women and the drag queen as a mythical being, a demigoddess of nightlife, in which transformation rarefies the concept of identity toward other possible genders, Tatu Vuolteenaho (1968, Yivieska), a Finnish transvestite-drag queen, organized a series of underground nighttime parties called Drag Attack from 2013 to 2019 in various gay clubs in Spain. Tatu's happening parties proposed a precarious, do-it-yourself cross-dressing that reclaims the figure of the monster in a shift that goes beyond the subversion of gender binaries to embody a subversion of humans, invoking nonbinary beings that refer to magical, queer, and posthuman figures in relation to art history, pop culture, and recent thought. According to Tatu Vuolteenaho, “Drag queen, drag king, drag freak . . . drag can be anything. We question gender, beauty, race, and condition to the point where spectators can start to wonder...

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