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Queerness Contested: Derogatory Language in Drag Performance and the Fundamental Queer Antagonism

By Sam Danley

TRANNYGATE: DRAG’S DIGITAL DISCOURSE

Since its premiere in 2009, the reality television show RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009-) has garnered significant critical and commercial success, cherry picking drag queens up by their lace front wigs and dropping them into the living rooms of Betty and Joe Beercan. Drawing larger audiences with each new season, Drag Race has brought about significant changes in the drag performance industry by expanding a potential for mainstream success and ushering in a new generation of “Drag Race baby boomers”—younger performers whose first exposure to […]

Queerness Contested: Derogatory Language in Drag Performance and the Fundamental Queer Antagonismadmin2019-01-14T00:05:27+00:00

Editor’s Note

Over the last two years, I’ve had the pleasure of participating in the complete upheaval and rebranding of this journal into the unique publication it has become. Looking back on process of reshaping our journal, I can’t help but notice the parallel between Caustic Frolic’s evolution and that of the members of its editing team. Even more so than the satisfaction of producing each new and improved issue has been the gratification of watching our team’s growth with publication—not to mention that of my own.

Friction is what results from the resistance of one surface moving against another and so, it […]

Editor’s Noteadmin2019-01-14T00:05:40+00:00

Make a left

By Clare Busey

Marker on bristol, 8×6 in.

Clare Busey is a self-taught artist from Atlanta, Georgia. She’s a freshman attending Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah campus and will be double majoring in Dramatic Writing and Film and Television. Find Clare on Instagram: off_a_whim.

Make a leftadmin2019-01-14T00:06:07+00:00

Loud Mouth [2]

By Katie Busey

Acrylic and watercolor paint on a sheet of glass printed on light-sensitive fiber paper.

Katie Busey is a photographer and artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Based in Manhattan, New York, she is enrolled at the International Center of Photography and graduates in June of 2018.

Loud Mouth [2]admin2019-01-14T00:06:02+00:00

The Commute

By Nolan Ryan Trowe

Digital, 4×6.

Nolan Ryan Trowe proudly represents California, is the photo editor at Entropic Magazine, a contributor to the New York Times, a freelance photojournalist and most importantly an uncle, brother, son, grandson, cousin, friend and teacher. Some of his influences include J-Dilla, Pink Floyd, Charles Bukowski, James Baldwin, Craola, Eugene Richards, Tupac and all of his friends and family. Although he enjoys life when he is working with and inspiring others, he needs his solitude. Let’s live. RIP to all my friends who have moved on. I miss you all, and you give me strength. One Love.

The Commuteadmin2019-01-14T00:05:55+00:00

Unorthodox

By Nolan Ryan Trowe

Digital, 4×6.

Nolan Ryan Trowe proudly represents California, is the photo editor at Entropic Magazine, a contributor to the New York Times, a freelance photojournalist and most importantly an uncle, brother, son, grandson, cousin, friend and teacher. Some of his influences include J-Dilla, Pink Floyd, Charles Bukowski, James Baldwin, Craola, Eugene Richards, Tupac and all of his friends and family. Although he enjoys life when he is working with and inspiring others, he needs his solitude. Let’s live. RIP to all my friends who have moved on. I miss you all, and you give me strength. One Love.

Unorthodoxadmin2019-01-14T00:05:50+00:00

Erosion of the Tide

By Victoria Lewis

Shot on a Canon EOS 70D.

Victoria Lewis has been a firm fan of the arts from a young age, always creating or performing. After attaining a Bachelor of Arts in Acting in Wales, she went on to teach children the arts in summer camps before turning her attention to working in the education sector one-to- one with learning difficulties and autism. Photography is a renewed passion of hers that truly revived during her recent travels through Australia with her trusty Canon 70d. Victoria became an award winning photographer after obtaining The People’s Choice Award in the Prints of […]

Erosion of the Tideadmin2019-01-14T00:06:22+00:00

Nature of Destruction

By Victoria Lewis

Shot on a Canon EOS 70D.

Victoria Lewis has been a firm fan of the arts from a young age, always creating or performing. After attaining a Bachelor of Arts in Acting in Wales, she went on to teach children the arts in summer camps before turning her attention to working in the education sector one-to- one with learning difficulties and autism. Photography is a renewed passion of hers that truly revived during her recent travels through Australia with her trusty Canon 70d. Victoria became an award winning photographer after obtaining The People’s Choice Award in the Prints […]

Nature of Destructionadmin2019-01-14T00:06:17+00:00

Loud Mouth [1]

By Katie Busey

Acrylic paint and watercolor paint on a sheet of glass.

Katie Busey is a photographer and artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Based in Manhattan, New York, she is enrolled at the International Center of Photography and graduates in June of 2018.

Loud Mouth [1]admin2019-01-14T00:06:29+00:00

Who Owns the Underworld: Holograms and the Taboo

By Louise Ho

The last five years has seen the realization of advanced holograms, which can be projected onto any setting, including outdoors and in daylight. Most of these holograms are used to recreate live performances of dead celebrities, mining the underworld for stars thought to have gone too soon. The handful of companies which own the expensive equipment needed have been vying to develop a Madam Tussaud-style collection of celebrities who can be mobilized to perform for live audiences. Holograms of deceased singers are created by compositing archival footage of their performances onto footage of body doubles, using […]

Who Owns the Underworld: Holograms and the Tabooadmin2019-01-14T00:06:39+00:00

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