Dr. Lady J will be giving a talk on 100 years of drag history.

Originally hailing from just outside of Dollywood in rural East Tennessee, Dr. Lady J (known outside of drag as J Davenport, dissertation published under dead name) is a non-binary trans woman who holds a doctorate in Musicology from Case Western Reserve University and is the world’s first drag queen with a PhD dissertation on drag history, a working drag queen whose research and educational outreach focus on obliterating the erasures of queer performance from history and bringing forward the contributions drag performers have made to politics, music, film, fashion, and popular culture.