Drag Queen Story Time - all the reasons it has no place in Early Years

FYI - I grew up around drag queens from a very very young age and oh the damage it had done!! I’m so inclusive and accepting and non-judgemental I just can’t believe it!! I have such an unhealthy relationship with sex too from being exposed to such things at a young age, I mean I don’t like sexualised clothes on young children, think all sex should be consensual, think any talks about it should be age appropriate…. And not to mention that I’m quick to defend people who are different from others in society. Such a bad lesson to teach children if I’m anything to go by. Yes ban drag Queen story time.

Just read the article - what utter hogswash!

Poor kids being subjected to human beings looking totally fabulous and being introduced to diversity that they probably wouldn’t batt an eyelid at and seeing people being themselves dressed in bright colours and being confident in who they are. Shame on the schools for allowing this!

It's the rainbow, monkey man library thing all over again, but that outfit included an obvious dildo.

Great article.

Laura refers to an academic paper called Drag pedagogy: The playful practice of queer imagination in early childhoodd*, written by Lil Miss Hot Mess.

Followed by...

The authors of the paper promote their decidedly adult idea that drag should “actively destabilize the normative function of schooling.”

Utterly laughable at first glance, genuinely concerning when you dig a little deeper. Drag Queen Story Hour needs to be excised from schools and libraries. What a disgrace.

It doesn't make sense. No other sexualised content is highlighted in the same way, and black-facing would not be permitted, so why highlight men who get kicks from women-facing themselves?

it is past time this political lobby were forced to face the fact that other humans are not available for use as therapeutic props.

This is exactly it. This is the core of the problem.

If they were interested in busting sexist myths they could have female fire fighters or stay at home dads (or any number of other commonly gendered jobs) in to read stories.

As a bullying prevention method it's rubbish because I can't remember the last time I saw a drag queen wandering the streets. How about an obviously disabled person, or someone who adheres to religious clothing reading stories instead as an example of accepting difference?I

It's only about queering childhood. Pernicious claptrap.

Great analysis from SSA (as ever). We've reposted it and are in complete agreement. Unfortunately Welsh Government are major fans of DQSH and drag queens generally. They regard them as the acme of diversity and inclusion. It would be so refreshing to see a disabled story-time reader, or a lesbian scientist, or a Muslim woman involved in politics. But no, diversity is always = drag queens.

Thank you for that link 2falls. Yet another fantastic article. I recall that Nancy Kelley of Stonewall shame stated that primary schools are their next target.
It would be great if the press picked up the issue of adults using children to further their own needs in this way. The fact that there are some useful idiots in schools enabling all this is so worrying and this article brilliantly summarises the problems that the queer theory fanaticists present in schools .

Excellently written by SSA. So much to pull out, but this one is key:

“It appears that some queens who faced homo- and transphobic mistreatment as children have said that Drag Queen Story Hour has offered a kind of healing and hope.”

Along with yesterday's debate on should female prisoners be locked up with males, it is past time this political lobby were forced to face the fact that other humans are not available for use as therapeutic props. Particularly children.

How on earth would anyone think that is appropriate?
Just sounds bizarre and confusing for the poor children subjected to it.